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  • Watch Out for Seasonal Silliness Around the Holiday

    • November 4, 2024
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Leadership, Manufacturing
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    Holiday hangover

    Down in Texas, just like everywhere else in the United States, there are quite a few holidays that bring the silliness out in people — reasons to drink, celebrate with friends, set off fireworks, and generally get a little rowdy and obnoxious. While Christmas may be called the “silly season,” every manager knows he or

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  • How Can You Solve a Worker Shortage Right Now?

    • July 28, 2021
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Business, Management, Manufacturing
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    A metal worker working on a hydraulic press. If you cross-train your employees, you can avoid a worker shortage

    There are worker shortages right now in all kinds of industries, from the restaurant industry to office workers to manufacturing. There are a variety of causes, like the fact that we’re paying people more not to work than what they were being paid to work. Or that some people don’t want to return to the

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  • How Can You Retain Good People After Investing So Much In Them?

    • September 5, 2018
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Leadership, Management
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    Improving productivity on your factory floor can also reduce HR and onboarding costs.

    With unemployment being as low as it is, it’s difficult to keep employees around because they can afford to be more mobile. People are more transitory. They often change companies to make more money, take a higher position, or even just because they want a change of scenery. They’ll even move from city to city

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  • Workplace Romances Create Problems in a Company

    • April 26, 2017
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Management
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    Edmund Leighton's "God Speed," an illustration of courtly love. A risky workplace romance.

    Since we spend more than a third of our day at work, and form close relationships with our coworkers, it’s not uncommon to find occasional workplace romances blossoming. However, this is something I strongly discourage and have been very strict about in the past. There are too many potentials for problems with workplace romances. Chances

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  • Effective Safety Programs

    • September 3, 2016
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Safety
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    plant machine fabrication

    Too many times, associates don’t heed safety warnings and ignore their safety programs. They think it doesn’t apply to them or that they won’t be hurt, or that they know better “how things work,” and they’ll circumvent safety equipment and safety procedures to make things work. As the president of a large manufacturing company, I

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