A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu Make it Matter: How Managers Can Motivate by Creating Meaning By Scott Mautz Copyright 2015Amacom Price $24.95 Pages: 250 with Index Making it matter motivates people Look it’s pretty straightforward isn’t it? People work harder and are much more passionate when they know that what they are doing has […]
Why Best Buy Will Go Out Of Business
And why they don’t have to Have you been to Best Buy lately? If you have you’ll see a store that is going to go out of business, sooner than later. And the shame of it there is no need to. Last Saturday I dropped off a computer because the “J” key had come off […]
Book Recommendation – Leading with Cultural Intelligence: The Real Secret to Success second edition
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu: Leading with Cultural Intelligence: The Real Secret to Success second edition By: David Livermore Copyright 2015 Amacom Price $26.95 Pages: 255 with Index A passageway to Global Leadership Let’s get right to it. Cultural Intelligence CQ is a measurement of your ability based on knowledge and experience to lead […]
How To Get The Most From Your PCB Vendors
We have talked a lot in this column about how board shops should treat their customers. How they should try to get to know their customers and their needs. So now let’s switch things around and talk about how customers should treat board shops, how they should work with board shops to get the best […]
Feds Cracking Down On Iran Embargo Violators
Author’s note: while this is a column I wrote almost two years ago, this problem hasn’t gone away. Feds Cracking Down On Iran Embargo Violators PCB exporter involved A good friend of mine knowing that I am such a strong advocate of ITAR sent me an article that appeared in the September 23 issue of […]
Catching up with Winonics’ Mark Eazell
I have always thought of Winonics as one of the hidden gems of the North American PCB industry. Their well-equipped and well-laid-out facility in Brea, California is one of the more impressive looking PCB facilities in North America today. Winonics is one of three PCB companies owned by JR Controls, the other two being Cosmotronic […]
Book Recommendation – Driven By Difference: How Great Companies Fuel Innovation through Diversity
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu: Driven By Difference: How Great Companies Fuel Innovation through Diversity By David Livermore Copyright 2016 Amacom Books Price: $27.95: 276 pages with appendix and index This book makes sense Diversity is a key to innovation in fact I strongly believe as many other well-minded people that diversity has always […]
How to Compete with the Chinese…Don’t
Just do what they can’t do instead While talking to a friend of mine the other day our talk turned to how American Printed Circuit Board shops can compete against the Chinese and other Asian board fabricators. After an extended exchange he turned to me and said. “It’s very simple Dan, the best way to […]
TAA has $75K waiting for you
You’ve got to take a risk The great Hockey star Wayne Gretzky once famously said, “I never scored on a shot I didn’t take” and of course nothing has ever been truer. The greatest hitters in baseball fail over 60% of the time. Golfers who do not go for it, do not take a stab […]
So Long To The World’s Greatest PCB Design Salesman
Mike Wilson passes away My great friend and business associate Mike Wilson passed away this week after a short illness. And now the world will be a little less interesting without Mike around. For the twenty five plus years I knew Mike, he was always up to something. Even in the past few years, two […]