The heavy manufacturing industry is tough and is not a career that many would embrace. Too often the career is compounded with long hours, dozens of missed child recitals, and I am not sure when I will be home, comments to our spouses. However, for those that do fall in love with the industry, it is a wonderful opportunity to build an adventurous career, a platform to build friendships around stories that are always exaggerated, all while financially supporting a family that

I assume most attendees of organizations are required to that write some form of “trip report” that reflects on the take-aways of a conference or a convention. This activity allows us to write what we saw, who we met, and how we believe we can use this vulnerable knowledge. I stress the word “vulnerable” because if we don’t act on it quickly, it will be lost. I will also assume in this world of endless emails and limited budgets, those that receive these trip reports may not

Organizations are becoming more connected than ever before with the complete office packages of Microsoft or Google. We can work on documents at the same time, ask a question to a group of individuals in a matter of seconds with a chat, and can virtually show a colleague a broken piece of equipment on a production line in the Midwest as they are sipping on a cocktail somewhere in the Pacific. With each incremental way to engage, we are introduced to an additional avenue to be

Finding things in everyday life that empower you to evaluate statistics or theorize estimates on a scenario has always been fun for my children and me. It becomes somewhat of a game, searching for certain attributes and data points to bring a story together. Sometimes it develops into a cost-benefit analysis of the carbon impact of a Kuerig Coffee maker versus a Breville One-touch. Other times it involves eating M&Ms as we discuss how many M&Ms are in the wall of storage cont