“May you live in interesting times.” We certainly do. Supply chain shortages like we’ve never seen, an international pandemic that continues to mutate, and strong …
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Overcoming Your Labor Shortage
Category Archives: Leadership
Organizational Structure is A Choice
Organizational structure is a strategic choice and should not simply default to “what we’ve always done.” Companies are often organized by skill set or primary …
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Cheap Labor is NOT the Goal!
It wasn’t difficult to see this coming. This podcast from 2013 explained how chasing cheap labor was very short sighted and doomed to fail. The …
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Is Additive Disruptive?
I want to discuss with you disruptive technologies and specifically additive manufacturing. I have been a volunteer with the association for manufacturing excellence for about …
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PreOrder Benefits: Manufacturing Mastery
My book Manufacturing Mastery: The Path to Building Successful and Enduring Manufacturing Businesses will be available September 1, 2021. For pre-orders, I am offering benefits …
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Allocation of Insufficient Supply
With labor, plastics, chips, cans and many other global shortages, demand is far greater than supply for many manufacturers. The question is: How best do …
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IIoT Programming is Easy
Industrial Internet of Things is the digitization of important variables, with that data converted into information that creates faster and better decision making. Business leaders …
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How to Define a Mission that Matters
Saying your mission is to be the best at whatever it is that you do, using whatever technology you use, is meaningless to the outside …
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Why Mission Matters to Your Business
Mission, vision, and core value statements were once considered serious. And then fluff, because companies had them, but didn’t live them. Thank goodness we’re never …
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Learning from Observation
CEOs, COOs, and consultants like myself do NOT know everything. We shouldn’t pretend to, nor expect ourselves to. We do need to constantly focus on …
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