Business
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Building a Winning Team: Continuous Improvement and Development
- July 7, 2024
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Business, Innovation, Measurement, Productivity
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Every manager dreams of building a winning team. Every boss dreams of having a winning department. Every sergeant dreams of commanding a winning squad. Members doing the high-quality work that needs to be done, fulfilling every function, completing every pass, every play, every task, every order, and functioning as a single unit with a single
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How to Develop Good Leadership Habits
- June 26, 2024
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Business, Leadership
Good leaders are always open to new ideas about how to become better leaders. They don’t assume they know everything, especially as they ascend to higher and higher positions. They know their strengths and work to make them even stronger. They know their weaknesses and work to make them, well, stronger, too. You don’t have
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No More Company Cars
- June 5, 2024
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Business, Management
I’ll admit, I hate the idea of company cars. They’re a royal pain in the ass and they cause a lot of problems and strife within a company. One thing I did whenever I started in any new leadership role at a company was to eliminate the company cars completely. After all, we were in
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Onboarding People Should Be About Finding Information
- May 22, 2024
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Business, Management, Productivity, Safety
When you’re inducting new people into your organization, it’s not uncommon to present them with a lot of information, reading of the manuals, showing them how to operate the company software, and to actually perform their job. In fact, the first few days of most onboarding processes are all about the rules, policies, and procedures
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Empower Your People to Become Leaders When They’re Not
- May 15, 2024
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Business, Management
I think I’m going to upset a lot of people with this one, so let’s see what happens. One way to empower your people to become leaders when they’re not managers is to eliminate the concept of DEI. Before I get a lot of hate mail, hear me out on this. I don’t mean that
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The Role of Safety Audits in Preventing Workplace Accidents
- May 8, 2024
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Business, Manufacturing, Safety
I’m going to say something that’s going to upset some people. There should be no safety audits in a factory setting. Why is that? Because safety audits are like restaurant inspections. Everyone who has ever worked in a restaurant knows the dirty little secret: when you know a health inspector is showing up, everyone makes
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New Tech Doesn’t Always Solve Old Problems.
- April 10, 2024
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Business, Management
Last week, I talked about how I made sure our organization had the right discipline when it came to adopting an inventory management system. My concern was that if we didn’t have the right processes in place and the discipline to stick with them, then a new piece of technology wasn’t going to solve the
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Adopting a Smart Approach to Inventory Management
- April 3, 2024
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Business, Digital Transformation
Remember the old days of inventory management, when you had to walk up and down the aisles of the warehouse, carrying a clipboard and counting every single piece of inventory, comparing it to what you had on your printout? Everyone rejoiced when software companies came out with inventory management software, and they clamored to introduce
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What Role Do Public-Private Partnerships Play in Your Strategy?
- February 21, 2024
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Business, Manufacturing
Many private companies and governmental agencies tout the benefits of public-private partnerships, but I’m a little leery of engaging in them. One thing experience has taught me is that developing a public-private partnership is a very expensive business. The public funding you receive is certainly not without its challenges and a lot of compliance requirement
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How Should Manufacturers Manage Compliance and Regulatory Challenges?
- February 14, 2024
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Business, Management, Manufacturing, Safety
It’s critical that your manufacturing operation stays compliant with all laws and regulations, both domestic and international. It not only affects your bottom line but there are instances where CEOs have gone to prison because they ignored different laws and regulations. No more can you just ignore regulations and pay fines because you think it’s