There are only three things you can do: 1. Do what you’re told. This is fine once in a while, but not fine if you’re also told how. 2. Do what you’re not told. This is the normal state of things – good leaders let good people choose.......
As professionals we get paid to think. But unlike professional athletes, we’ve forgotten the importance of mind and body. Clearly, mind is connected to body. (I’m not talking about a metaphysical connection, I’m talking about a physical physical connection.) There are electromechanical connections (nerves) that pass information between the two......
As an engineering leader you have the biggest profit lever in the company. You lead the engineering teams, and the engineering teams design the products. You can shape their work, you can help them raise their game, and you can help them change their thinking. But if you don’t win......
Rumor has it, manufacturing is back. Yes, manufacturing jobs are coming back, but they’re coming back in dribbles. (They left in a geyser, so we still have much to do.) What we need is a fire hose of new manufacturing jobs. Manufacturing jobs are trickling back from low cost countries......
For the foreseeable future, there will be more work than time. Yet year-on-year we’re asked to get more done and year-on-year we pull it off. Most are already at our maximum hour threshold, so more hours is not the answer. The answer is productivity. Like it or not, there are......
Don’t worry about your biggest competitor – they’re not your biggest competitor. You’ve not met your biggest competitor. Your biggest competitor is either from another industry or it’s three guys and a dog toiling away in their basement. Certainly it’s impossible to worry about a competitor we’ve not met, but......
If I was a company, the first thing I’d do is invest in my engineering teams. But not for the reasons we normally associate with engineering. Not for more function and features, not for product robustness, not technology, and not patents. I would invest in engineering for increased profits. When......
Systematic DFMA Deployment – How To Implement for Increased Profits I am running a half-day workshop on June 13 in Providence, RI. The workshop is part of the 2012 International Forum on Design for Manufacturing and Assembly. I will focus on how to increase profits and incorporate DFMA into your......
Some thoughts on no: Yes is easy, no is hard. Sometimes slower is faster. Yes, and here’s what it will take: The best choose what they’ll not do. Judge people on what they say no to. Work and resources are a matched pair. Define the work you’ll do and do......
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