Archive for October 2020
October 2020 Newsletter
In October 2020, I published the inaugural issue of “The Manufacturing Leader”, a newsletter aimed at small and mid-size manufacturers. The newsletter is 4 pages long, with 4 articles, and it will take about 10 minutes to read. Click the link below, and it will pop open in a PDF reader. The Manufacturing Leader –…
Read MorePractice makes perfect, but I’ll settle for better
I’m reading the book “You Can’t Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar” by David Sandler and David Mattison. The book is mostly about sales, although I think it has lessons that extend beyond the selling profession. At its core, the book is about the hard work of practice. I grew up…
Read MorePlanning is great, but budgeting???
It’s mid-October, and as I write this I’ve had an item on my to-do list for a month that says “Update 4th quarter plan”, and another that says, “Prepare 2021 plan”. My brain tells me that I should do it, but I always seem to find something else that is supposedly more pressing to work…
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