Earlier as we looked at maximizing the return on investment in relationships, I stressed the importance of choosing them wisely and nurturing those relationships to ensure everyone involved had ample opportunity for growth. While identifying the key experts weā€™ll need in our lives in order to compen...
In March of 2000, as a 23 year old 250 ton stamping press operator (and carpenter on the side), I applied for and was somehow offered a position implementing the latest and greatest Lean manufacturing initiative the company I was working for was pushing down from the corporate office. I had been wor...
Once we come to terms with the fact that our organization is almost certainly leaving money on the table, the most natural response and most frequent response Iā€™ve seen a business owner or executive take is to jump right into identifying exactly which things are killing their profit and taking swift...
