Management
In today’s politically correct business world, too many leaders are more concerned about not offending their employees than they are about helping them grow.
One of the biggest issues keeping teams from achieving greater success is a leader’s fear of mandating the activities and…
Michele Gelfand has studied and taught negotiation for years. A professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business, she sees negotiation as a skill that’s imperative for everyone to learn. “It’s not something we’re born with,” she says. “It’s something we learn over…
Walk any well-run plant and you’ll find statistical process control doing quiet, faithful work: control charts on the critical dimensions; capability studies before a line change; gage R&R before anyone trusts a measurement; out-of-control signals investigated; root causes found; corrective…
Extreme heat, drought, wildfires, floods, record-low rivers, and rising energy demand have defined much of the summer of 2026. But for businesses, the important story isn’t simply that weather records are being broken. It’s where those physical changes enter the operating system of a company.…
Six weeks after a global manufacturer’s leadership team approved a group of promising new ideas, someone asked for an update. There wasn’t one.
Not because the ideas had been rejected. Not because priorities had changed. Not because anyone had decided innovation no longer mattered…
The European Commission’s latest Joint Actions on Compliance of Products (JACOP) project offers a useful starting point for understanding why products can still fail environmental compliance checks even when manufacturers have established compliance programs.
Published in June…