Business
Daimler-Chrysler Wants a Divorce. Shocking.
We now have the news that Daimler-Chrysler wants a divorce. Shocking. One more stupid merger falls apart because the people couldn’t get along. The Germans thought Detroit built crappy cars, [...]
Lovie and Tony's Coaching Styles
Tony Dungy, the coach of the Indianapolis Colts, and Lovie Smith, coach of the Chicago Bears, are close personal friends who talk to each other at 5:00 a.m. every Monday [...]
Wiki-Screw Machines
Like most people, I have a love-hate relationship with the Internet. I love Fantasy Baseball. I hate email. I love reading Mark Cuban’s blog. I hate the assault of pornography [...]
Commodity Prices Unraveling
Copper prices are down almost 30 percent from the speculative hedge fund bubble. Brass rod is just beginning to follow with scrap prices down about 10 percent from the peak. [...]
Meeting People the Old Fashion Way (Liberated from email!)
One of the great things about doing this magazine is finding out that people actually read it, and some even like it. I received a call from Paul Ikasalo, the [...]
Don't Want to Get Passed Up
What do you do if your core business is imploding not because you are bad at what you do, but because the world has suddenly changed. Ask the Tribune Company, [...]
November
As I am writing, the Congressional elections are an unknown. The conventional wisdom is that the Democrats will win the House and possibly the Senate. Is this a big deal [...]
Scrap Pays the Bills
A recent conversation has me thinking that the old screw machine world has been turned on its head and the change is falling out of its pockets. I was talking [...]
Ex One Revolution
For me, the highlight of IMTS was the Ex One exhibit. This company, led by former head of Extreme Hone, Lawrence Rhoades, and former CEO of Gleason Works Theaters John [...]
New Life at Tornos
Welcome to the 21st century Tornos. At the Tornos press conference, I was impressed with Scott Kowalski, who has taken the reins at Tornos in America. Tom Dierks, who led [...]