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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
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
Letter to New Industrial Engineers
This is my letter to the interns who I worked with in the summer of 2011 and anyone else who is going into the field. I have worked in the industrial/manufaturing engineering field for over 30 years. The reason I … Continue reading
Memories from Lean Manufacturing Engineering
For some reason I’m going through memories form the past 30 years working in manufacturing and there are some themes that keep re-ocurring. The funny thing is that I thought that things would progress. One of the fallacies of our … Continue reading
Story of 3 College Summer Interns – Dedication to Manufacturing
In the corporate world there is a thing called summer interns. My exposure started at Medtronic with an intern from the home state of Minnesota. It turned out that he came at the perfect time to help with a machining … Continue reading
Books That Brought Women Into the Over Culture
Here are a few old favorites that I keep going back to: You Just Don’t Understand by Deborah Tanner originally published in 1990 and Games Mother Never Taught You by Betty Lehan Harragan originally published in 1977. They both have gone on to write … Continue reading
Sitting here in California Thinking About Toyota Kata
I’m sitting here in California trying to imagine a Toyota Kata movement coming my way down from Michigan, the center of manufacturing technology innovation in the United States. I’m trying to get a feeling for the flow of energy in … Continue reading
What is an Engineering Company?
There have been two points in my Operations career where I have worked in what was euphemistically called an “engineering company”. What does that mean? It actually has meant two different things at the two different companies. In the first … Continue reading
Start Where You Are – Toyota Kata
The book Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron is a constant reminder to me that when you’re confused and don’t know where to start, you have to start where you are. Sounds too simple but that’s all you can do. … Continue reading
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