Fresh, unique and valuable insights about how to get ahead are available to you — if you get out into the field with customers. Business leaders need get out of their offices and get into the field to glean customer insights. When did you last spend time with a customer? You personally,... Continue Reading
Good leadership is about trust. Trust is the essential factor for success and is foundational for an organization to evolve, flex, pivot, adapt, and ultimately thrive in times of continuous change. Consider this research published in Harvard Business Review from Paul J. Zak, a Professor at the... Continue Reading
The chaos at ports, warehouses and retailers will probably persist through the year, and perhaps even longer. With the havoc at ports showing no signs of abating and prices for a vast array of goods still rising, the world is absorbing a troubling realization: Time alone will not solve the Great... Continue Reading
R.J. Watson anticipates a busy year. But the Alden manufacturer knows it could be tough to find more employees to hire to share the workload. In addition to advertising job openings and offering referral bonuses to its employees, the company is exploring whether to invest in robotics as a way to... Continue Reading
Age-related biases are baked into the recruiting process, whether conscious or not. Should workers be cagey, in order to overcome recruiters’ biases? Applying for jobs is generally miserable, even at the best of times. But what if you knew that simply revealing your age on your CV would... Continue Reading
Every commercial heat treater has been in that place where you get a purchase order from a customer, and guess what? It’s missing numerous pieces of vital information to perform the heat treat services needed. Various elements are left blank or omitted including: Current state of... Continue Reading
As news of one Sonoma County manufacturer’s issues with workplace safety made headlines, North Bay production plants point out the benefits of automation in reducing repetitive motion injuries on assembly lines. “Automation is not a job killer, it’s a job creator,”... Continue Reading
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is set to transform manufacturing operations, and leading manufacturers are revising their operations in ways that can serve as beacons for others. The grand challenges of the coming decades require deep, responsible industry transformation along entire value... Continue Reading
If the old horse you lead to water doesn’t drink, find a robotic one that will. That’s pretty much what countries with aging workforce populations are doing. As older workers become less productive in the manual tasks they perform, and industry finds fewer employees willing to do that... Continue Reading
Many companies have embraced agility in recent years. The more the world changes in unpredictable ways, the more critical it is for us to react nimbly. Yet performance management processes have largely been stagnant. To achieve agility across the organization, you need to embrace agile performance... Continue Reading
Boeing Co bounced back to win the traditional annual order race against Airbus SE on an adjusted basis, but its European rival remained the world's largest plane maker based on the number of jets delivered, data showed on Tuesday. Shares in Boeing rose around 2% after the closely watched data... Continue Reading
United States Steel Corp. on Tuesday announced its building a $3 billion mill in northeast Arkansas that’s expected to employ at least 900 people. The Pittsburgh-based company announced it has chosen Osceola for the site of its new mill, with construction expected to begin early this... Continue Reading
