Afterthought
Afterthought: Making the Call
Today’s Machining World Archive: May 2010 Vol. 6, Issue 04 For almost 10 years I’ve lived the schizoid life of a machinery dealer and writer/publisher. Both jobs stoke my intellectual [...]
Afterthought – Bread of Affliction?
Today’s Machining World Archive: April 2010 Vol. 6, Issue 03 I am writing this column one week before the Jewish holiday of Passover. From sun down Monday, March 29th through [...]
Afterthought – Toyota’s Lean Mistake
Today’s Machining World Archive: March 2010, Vol. 6, Issue 02 By Lloyd Graff For me, lean manufacturing is like the Talmud, the Jewish commentaries on the Bible. You can find [...]
Afterthought – Picking the Bargains
Last March the Dow Jones average hit 6,500, 55 percent off its high a year earlier. Many people saw Depression and felt desperate. The really smart few bought Ford at [...]
Afterthought – Finding Peace with Our Choices
The death of financier Bruce Wasserstein, a friend from college days, hit me like an unsheathed blow to the chin. It wasn’t just because he had survived quadruple bypass surgery [...]
Afterthought: Nothing to fear
By Lloyd Graff Today’s Machining World Archives January 2009 Volume 05 Issue 03 “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” This sentence, uttered by President Franklin Roosevelt [...]
Afterthought: Joie de Vivre
Today’s Machining World Archives February 2008 Volume 04 Issue 02 I still love my local Starbucks for the friendly people who serve me and the crowd those offices there, but [...]
Afterthought: Remembering Beverly Sills
By Lloyd Graff Today’s Machining Archives August 2007 Volume 03 Issue 08 Beverly Sills died July 2. She was a marvelous singer and humanitarian, but I will always remember a [...]
Afterthought: Switch Pitching
Today’s Machining World Archives May 2007 Volume 03 Issue 05 (Updated Dec. 2010) Pat Venditte presently is a AA prospect in the Yankees organization. He’s a legitimate big league prospect [...]