“This is ridiculous! Why would you write such crap?” Not the response I expected after precisely documenting the desoldering process. “I wrote exactly what’s happening in the lab across the street.” The Director of Quality knocked her chair over in her rush to get to the other building, yelling into her cell phone to the…
Working with Startups for the last 17 years, I’ve heard this many times when I ask about their competition. “I don’t have any competition. No one is doing what I’m doing.” My response is always the same. A broom will beat out a vacuum cleaner if the Customer lives in a cave with no power….
“Mr. Vanderbilt was the first of the large forest owners in America to adopt the practice of forestry. He has conserved Pisgah Forest from the time he bought it up to his death, a period of nearly twenty five years, under the firm conviction that every forest owner owes it to those who follow him,…
Farming in the forest, agroforestry, can take many forms, from the local friend who’s growing truffles on his wooded suburban acreage to friends in the mountains who share food with neighbors and sell in local popup markets. The existing forest environment already provides years of mulch, compost, and topsoil with the added benefit of absorption…
“Create Your Master File” is the first step of the Roadmap on the Veterans page on this website. This file keeps you ready for any move you decide to make and ensures that you’re never caught off guard by the whims of employers. Don’t let it be a roadblock. It’s just the onramp. You’re not…
“The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men, but to remove the causes of failure:…
“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.” ? Eleanor Roosevelt “What if …?” is the first step to getting where you want to be. Sometimes, the solution will be as simple as the story about the…
People talk about the benefits of an open-door policy. Not everyone takes advantage of all the benefits, Traffic flows two ways through a door. Let them in. Get out on the shop floor. Get out of the building. LET THEM INMake sure employees know they can come to you with ideas and concerns. At one…
First, rather than go with the trend to continuously elongate acronyms, I’ll stick with JEDI for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. It’s beyond me how Belonging and Accessibility are not part of Equity and Inclusion. Besides, I like the “power” of the term JEDI. I can already see you waving your politically correct light saber…