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Industry Scuttlebutt
For EMC Precision Machining in Elyria, Ohio, it was just another day at the office last Friday—except for President Obama stopping by for a walkthrough and photo op. For Jeff [...]
The “Bullwhip Effect” on Caterpillar
Good article in the Wall Street Journal Wednesday on the “bullwhip effect” as it relates to Caterpillar. Caterpillar Inc. recently told its steel suppliers that it will more than double [...]
The Sports Illustrated Tablet from Wonder Factory
If you want to see what the future looks like with an Apple iPad tablet or comparable device, go to Michael Hyatt’s blog about the combination of Sports Illustrated and [...]
Story Time
By Lloyd Graff I remember virtually nothing from my early childhood. I sometimes think I was born when I was five years old. My parents told me that I did not talk [...]
Negotiating Like Pirates
By Lloyd Graff Connecting the dots from Wednesday’s news. Scott Brown, the Republican, won Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, which he had held for 47 years. Brown’s résumé includes posing nude [...]
Industry Scuttlebutt
Jim Rowe, one of Today’s Machining World’s past “Shop Doc” columnists, recently invented two iPhone Apps to deal with everyday math problems confronting machinists, programmers and engineers. Presently at the [...]
Admitting You Stink
By Lloyd Graff I was shocked by the current ad campaign by Domino’s pizza in which company president, Patrick Doyle, clearly states that the pizza that made the company billions [...]
Moving Cheese
By Lloyd Graff Food selling businesses can tell us a lot about best and worst practices in the unending search for elusive success as an entrepreneur. I spent the holidays [...]
Time to Retire?
By Lloyd Graff When my arterial plumbing got perilously close to fatal failure 16 months ago, God granted me the opportunity to reassess my life while on a breathing tube [...]
The Best and Worst Jobs
By Noah Graff A recent video from the online Wall Street Journal discusses a survey ranking the “best and worst jobs” of the 2010 economy. On the list, actuary ranked [...]