change management
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Emotional Intelligence: The Leadership Skill Nobody Teaches
- June 3, 2026
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Business, Leadership
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I’ve worked in manufacturing long enough to see the same story play out over and over. A company has a great employee. Maybe it’s the best machinist in the plant. Maybe it’s the engineer everyone calls when a machine goes down. Or it’s the maintenance tech who can hear a strange noise in a gearbox
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Use Inside and Outside Experts for a Major Undertaking
- September 13, 2023
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Innovation, Leadership
Manufacturing CEOs and COOs often deal with company-wide changes and projects that can affect how the entire business operates. One question we often dealt with at Robroy was whether to enlist the services of external experts during these challenges. The decision to bring in outside expertise can be a game-changer. There were times, like when
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Adopt a change management strategy when going through a major undertaking
- September 6, 2023
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Leadership
Years ago, when I worked at Robroy, our company never had a proper warehouse management system — software that tracked our inventory and helped us know what we needed to order and what we had too much of. Our raw materials and our products would just sit on the floor and oftentimes got damaged. Not