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Social Networking Results
The world has changed in the workplace – that’s an understatement. The most obvious is that everybody is a free agent. We all know that the days of staying at one company for your whole career is from a time … Continue reading
Predicting the Future
Part of wondering what is next either for ourselves or for the country or for the human race, one starts to look at how to see into the future. When I look back at how things have evolved in my career, … Continue reading
Production As a Means Not an End
He had forgotten the simple emotions of childhood, and perhaps never encountered the delights of youth. He believed in production, that useful figment of economy, as if it had been real like laughter; Page 67 ..ploughs and butter-churns were but … Continue reading
What Do You Love to Do?
These days everybody from the car dealer to self help books give advice that you should do what you love to do. In finishing Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, I was struck by the theme throughout the book … Continue reading
New Years Observations
I haven’t posted for awhile but I have 6 drafts awaiting review and publishing. I am a person who likes the new year to review past assumptions and to make any corrections from last year. I started seeing a pattern … Continue reading
Change Agent Must Be a Warrior – Sun Tzu The Art of War
I recently described the manufacturing environment as controlled chaos to a candidate for an open position. Then I just read an excerpt from The Art of War as follows: Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question … Continue reading
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Manufacturing Execution Systems – iBaset
What I learned from their presentation. After 14+ years working in defense and thinking we were just inefficient and all screwed up, I learned that there is a typical process in defense manufacturing that iBaset has nailed. It is based on … Continue reading
Meta-Industrial Engineers
In the book Natural Capitalism by Hawken and Lovins, it speaks of meta-industrial engineers who are creating zero emission industrial parks as part of the positive look ahead of what is coming when we give up on petroleum and over … Continue reading
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Difficult People – End of a Chapter
The chapter has finally ended on this difficult person adventure. It was a challenge for both of us. This is what I learned: If you don’t at first succeed try, try again. If you’re at the end of your rope, … Continue reading