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Category Archives: Culture
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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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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Move Forward Now, or Delay?
Inconvenience and risk are present in our manufacturing businesses every day. Some should not prevent us from moving forward now; others represent to much potential …
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Attracting the Best Candidates
As manufacturers are searching high and low for employees, it is crucial that we not make bad hiring decisions out of a sense of desperation. …
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Manufacturing–Does the Degree Matter?
A recent LinkedIn post of mine attracted responses from a wide variety of degree’d professionals — biologists, film, ethics, psychology. I asked what from their …
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The Discipline of Accountability in Manufacturing
Would you describe your business culture as accountable? Many CEOs I talk with want more accountability in their organizations and are not quite sure how …
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Decide. It Will Hurt Much Less.
Managers who delay necessary actions often do so out of a distaste for conflict. I’ll bet you can think of 2 or 3 decisions you …
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Should You Defund Innovation?
To ingrain a new culture, and for many companies that is a culture of innovation, we know we must quit doing what we’ve always done …
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Nudging Your Employees
Do you wish your employees would make better decisions more often? “Nudge” is a concept that encourages paternalism and choice architecture to improve decision-making. Take …
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