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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Nudging Your Employees
Category Archives: General-Business
But Will it Work in My Business?
You work hard in your business, and are intimately familiar with all the distinctions that make your company special. But you’re really not all that …
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Beyond Best Practices
We’re all surrounded by “best practices” in our own businesses, in our industry, and across manufacturing. The reality is that best practices are the low …
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Dangerous Assumptions
Executives make dangerous assumptions. Too often, in a hurry to move along to the next thing, they assume a decision made is a decision implemented, …
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It sounded good at the time
Short-term, biased, egotistical decisions can be very expensive for any organization. Political leadership has led to the US Military, the best in the world, losing …
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Rationalization: Successful Integration of Operations Requires It
M&A deals rarely accomplish the great financial success outlined in the agreements. Failures in integrating operations dominate those unsatisfactory transactions. About 2 years ago I …
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Follow This Process for Successful Integration of Manufacturing Operations
Why do so many Mergers and Acquisitions fail to find promised success? These next several podcast expand on an earlier series in which I addressed …
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The Private Equity Game has Changed for Manufacturers
While your experience working for a PE firm-owned manufacturer may have been miserable and driven by short term views, that world is changing significantly. More …
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Design for Reuse Continues to Evolve
If you’re not designing for re-use, your operations are making a serious mistake. You may not believe in Global Warming, but maximizing market share and …
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The Only Manufacturing Skills Shortage That Matters
You don’t need CNC operators or machinists nearly as much as you need the one skill that truly matters long term to successful manufacturing companies. …
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