US Manufacturing output = $2,334 billion !
Grow Your Small Business
The key to growing your small business is to transition from being an artist to being a business machine. To grow you have to move from creating occasional masterpieces to mass producing them. The ability to transform that artistry and magic into a predictable, controlled and scalable process is a rare skill. Almost as rare as the ability to recognize that you need help and seeking it out.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. Aristotle
Trendy articles on leadership and its defining characteristics are plentiful. Leadership has been over analyzed and every one wants a leader to reflect their own special cherished attributes. We have servant leaders, emotional leaders, leaders with emotional bravery, democratic leaders, authoritarian leaders and the list goes on. All are valuable attributes but Courage is the fundamental trait of leadership. Show me a cowering leader and I’ll show you a weak follower. Leaders make difficult contrarian decisions, leaders travel the road less travelled, leaders stand apart from the masses, leaders have unique visions and push forward often at great personal cost. History has been made by the brave men and women who had the courage to lead. President Lincoln and Harry S Truman, Steve Jobs and Henry Ford, Rosa Parks and Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr. and Lt. Michael Murphy, Katherine Johnson and Marie Curie are all prime examples of courageous leaders. Who is your courageous leader?
Robots were once viewed as manufacturing boogeymen but Covid-19 changed that. Cobots are now being used to augment production teams not supplant them. In turn manufacturing associates become more valuable creating a more competitive landscape for the US..
High risk, high rewards
It is hard not to be captivated by this little $85M drone. If you want to learn more about the technical details on the Flight Control and Aerodynamic Performance of Ingenuity, this is for you (written by Håvard Grip, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Chief Pilot at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Being lean can be uncomfortable
Penguins use blubber to insulate themselves from the cold. Over staffing is the blubber of inefficient companies. It insulates employees from making decisions and creates bureaucracy, apathy and a lack of ownership. Are you lean enough that your employees feel the cold? Are they owners of problems and seekers of solutions?
The more things change, the more they stay the same
Change management has always been the hidden key to the success of substantial projects. In particular projects that challenge our traditional ways of working. This classic article “The Hard Side of Change Management” was published by the Harvard Business Review and authored by:
It is even more relevant in today's ever changing world than it was back in 2005.