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The Car Market Is Insane. It Might Stay That Way for a While.

This is a historically terrible time to buy a car. The entire auto industry has been hobbled for months by the worldwide shortage of semiconductor chips, which has prevented manufacturers from producing enough vehicles to meet the demand from Americans eager to spend their pandemic savings and... Continue Reading

How Equitable is Your Remote Hybrid Workforce Plan?

Transitioning from an all in-office organization to an all-or hybrid-remote organization is not as easy as the pandemic may have made it seem. In 2020, employers asked workers to “power through” and keep working even as illness and national stay-at-home orders turned their... Continue Reading

5 Considerations for Sustainable Manufacturing Excellence

And why it is so hard to excel for the long term? Executing a manufacturing excellence strategy, by any name, is a major challenge for leadership. Here are a few examples of why it is so hard to build a sustainable model that can be institutionalized for the long term. Education at the shop... Continue Reading

MTI Industry Support Team POWERS MTI Member Operations

Having the right information or data to make great decisions to grow your business is more important than ever. Every company experiences change and “the unexpected” coming at them more than ever in today’s dynamic economy. Everything from finding qualified people, cybersecurity,... Continue Reading

Mission Accepted: Deploying Digital Transformation

The 2021 IndustryWeek Technology Survey sheds pandemic-shaded light on the ongoing digital transformation journey. The responses to the 2020 IndustryWeek Technology Survey painted a clear picture – manufacturers last year truly accepted the importance of undergoing a digital transformation.... Continue Reading

Preventing the Tsunami Turnover: 4 Steps to Take

As I mentioned in my last video blog TurnoverTsunami, employers need to prepare for aturnover tsunami among their employees. Surveys and news headlines, which are coming out with more frequency, are all saying the same thing. Now that the pandemic seems to be waning, employees are looking for a... Continue Reading

Common Workplace Conflicts and Their Solutions

Conflict in the workplace happens for a variety of reasons: Poor decision-making processes, lack of clarity, ineffective communication, and hundreds of other reasons. Many leaders view conflict as problematic, but conflict is not the problem, mismanagement is. Mismanagement occurs when leaders... Continue Reading

Standards Up in the Air

More than 100 years after the Wright Brothers took their first flight, ASTM International committees are working to enable technical innovation and keep the skies safer than ever. One hundred years ago, the possibilities for the fledgling aerospace industry were limitless. Less than 20 years... Continue Reading

Effective and easy ways to relieve stress at work

Feeling stressed? Join the crowd. No matter your viewpoint on what’s going on in the world, the reality is that you have burdens a little closer to home -- as parents, leaders, students, or simply as adults who need to pay bills and navigate the complexity of your environment. Yep, stress... Continue Reading

How to Create a “Bosshole-free” Zone

Bad managers exist in our organizations. We must find them, remove them from the Bosshole Zone and equip them with tools to help grow and develop their people. At the risk of shocking people with the term “Bosshole,” I want to assure you that no managers were injured in the pursuit... Continue Reading

What to do if Your Employees Have Switched Off

Are your people weary, worried, and disengaged? Dan Cable and Fran Gino suggest ways to re-engage them How are your teams responding to the challenges of Covid-19? Are they engaged and switched on? Do they see the crisis as an opportunity? Are they pulling together to spot opportunities and build... Continue Reading

Biden Wants Millions of Electric Vehicles on the Roads. Can the Power Grid Handle it?

“We have to recognize that the (electric) infrastructure in parts of this country has fallen behind that in many other parts of the world,” said one energy expert. Four months after an unexpected ice storm caused much of the Texas power grid to crash, state regulators warned this... Continue Reading