Understanding Yourself and Others
Effective leaders are comfortable within themselves. Both outgoing, quick witted leaders and quiet, thoughtful people can be effective leaders. People follow people who are clear, confident, and know them selves. I first discovered the Enneagram at least 35 years ago...
Hannover Messe Preview
The 2020 edition of the annual manufacturing trade show in Hannover, Germany isn't until April, but here I am in Hannover for my first trip to the preview of the show given to global media. Well global except for most of the Chinese delegation for obvious reasons....
Open, 5G, Edge Dominate ARC Forum Conversations
Announcements and discussions at this year’s iteration of the Industry Forum sponsored by ARC Advisory Group were amazingly diverse. Another IT supplier appeared. Security remained an issue. Most conversations revolved around open (open source and open...
News Media—Reporting or Engaging in Idle Speculation
I really liked the old CNN Headline News--from about 20 or more years ago, that is. You could tune in for maybe 15 minutes and get a scan of the relevant news without fluff or spin. A couple of years ago a new source sprang up online--Axios. It was similar to that old...
Cooperation
This is one of those weeks. Flew to Orlando late Sunday for the 24th annual ARC Advisory Group Industry Forum (my 23rd). Up early Monday and met with at least 20 people spending most of the day sitting. Dinner with a group from 7-10 pm. Back to the hotel room (I am...
What? You Don’t Have to Pay?
I was so swamped with 18+ hour days this week at the ARC Industry Forum that I had no time (or energy) to write anything. I have enough good information for the next week, though. I sat down for my 25-minutes with a marketing executive from an unnamed company this...
Podcast 202 Industrial Challenges 2020 Edition
I have released a new podcast. In the late 1970s I worked in an engineering department where one of my responsibilities was the custodian and distributor of all engineering data. In addition, I did all the corporate new product quoting--such things as UPS truck bodies...
How We Think – Personal Development
For your personal development, I just finished and highly recommend a rather big (530 pages), but readable, book on thinking–Surfaces and Essences: Analogy As The Fuel and Fire of Thinking. The authors are Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander. You may remember...
What We Read
I interrupt the regularly scheduled programming for this public service announcement. There was a section of a political science class I took somewhere around 1968 where we discussed media and politics. (Yes, Virginia, that was a topic oh so long ago.) We did some...
Laser Micromachining Manufacturing Unveiled
As you add electronic sensing and control and networking to machinery, you can take a process to the next level. I’ve been impressed with the growing development of tighter tolerances and then better variety of materials for 3D printing (additive manufacturing). Here...