Management
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How Do You Quickly Pivot During a Crisis?
- April 25, 2020
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Business, Management
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When you think of an aircraft carrier, you tend to think of them as slow-moving, unwieldy vessels that are best suited to going in a straight line and needing half a day just to execute a turn. But you would be wrong! A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier can make a 180-degree turn in a matter of
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What Goes into a Contingency Plan For Your Operation?
- April 11, 2020
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Business, Management
As we’re rolling into the coronavirus shutdown, and companies are working from home, or even furloughing workers until we can all go back to work, many companies are thinking about, dusting off, or even writing their contingency plan and disaster recovery plan. A disaster recovery plan is the (very large) document that tells you what
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My Four Non-Negotiables: #4 – Check Your Ego at the Front Door
- April 4, 2020
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Leadership, Management
Over the years, I have developed a management philosophy I call the Four Non-Negotiables. Over the last few weeks, I’ve shared what each of them are and what they mean. This final week is about Non-Negotiable #4, Check Your Ego at the Front Door Actually, the full title is “Check your ego at the front
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My Four Non-Negotiables: #3 – Productivity
- March 25, 2020
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Management, Measurement, Productivity
Over the years, I have developed a management philosophy I call the Four Non-Negotiables. For the next couple weeks, I’ll share what each of them are and what they mean. This week is about Non-Negotiable #3, Productivity As you manage your organization’s Safety, and the Housekeeping is well in hand, you want to look at
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My Four Non-Negotiables: #2 – Housekeeping
- March 18, 2020
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Management, Manufacturing, Safety
Over the years, I have developed a management philosophy I call the Four Non-Negotiables. For the next few weeks, I’ll share what each of them are and what they mean. This week is about Non-Negotiable #2, Housekeeping Housekeeping in any organization, not just a factory, should be everybody’s responsibility and not just the maintenance staff.
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My Four Non-Negotiables: #1 – Safety
- March 11, 2020
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Management, Safety
Over the years, I have developed a management philosophy I call the Four Non-Negotiables. Over these next four weeks, I’ll share what each of them are and what they mean. This week is about Non-Negotiable #1, Safety Safety is often strongly encouraged, or at least given lip service, in most organizations, but it’s something management
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How I Created The Four Non-Negotiables That Defined My Leadership Style
- March 4, 2020
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Management, Manufacturing
Over the years, I’ve developed a management and leadership philosophy that has served me well as I progressed further in my career. As I moved further up my career ladder, I saw problems that I was able to fix by calling on these solutions. They became so important to my style that I started calling
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What Goes Into a Disaster Recovery Plan?
- February 26, 2020
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Business, Management, Safety
We’ve had enough natural disasters over the last several years, that any company that doesn’t have a disaster recovery plan is just begging for a company-ending problem to hit them. A disaster recovery plan is the way your company can survive terrible tragedies, like a fire that sweeps through your building, a tornado or hurricane
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Look to Retirees to Shore Up Your Labor Shortage
- February 19, 2020
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Management, Manufacturing, Productivity
As the labor market continues to tighten, and it’s getting harder to hire skilled and experienced labor, it will behoove managers to take a different view on hiring people over 65 on a consultancy basis. There’s a lot of experience sitting on the sidelines that’s not being utilized, and it’s contributing to the American labor
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How Do You Decide to Allocate Resources and Staffing? (Hint: Measurement)
- February 12, 2020
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Management, Measurement
There are times where you have to allocate — or reallocate, as the case may be — your money, staff, and resources to solve a particular problem. Maybe you have to do a crash inventory where everyone has to stop what they’re doing and everyone has to focus on counting everything in the warehouse. Or