Aerospace machining, CNC machining, titanium castings
For the simplicity that lies this side of complexity, I would not give a fig, but for the simplicity that lies on the other side of complexity, I would give my life. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Many of us struggle to find balance in our lives. We are parents wanting to spend more time with […]
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. – Annie Dillard Over the next few weeks, I’ll share some thoughts, tools, and techniques that may be of help to those of you wanting to affect change in your life or your business. Loosely coupled, the ideas form the basis of a […]
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Someone once told me that in order to be happy you need three things: Someone to love Something to do Something to hope for I regularly meet people who have all of those […]
Today I wanted to tie off on our discussion concerning risk and reward by sharing three lessons I’ve learned over my last 14 years in the trenches. Running a small business where the risks are high and the potential for profit low, can at times be an incredibly lonely and depressing affair. In hopes you’ll […]
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. – J.W. Goethe In last week’s blog I offered my answer to the […]
In response to my previous article on the commoditization of making things, I was asked my opinion on what smaller aerospace precision CNC machining companies could be doing to position themselves for survival. This is certainly an important question, not only for those of us in the business, but also for companies relying on […]
Third Value: Do what you say. I was recently invited to give a talk about project management to a group of university business students. Because the talk happened to coincide with the day my 2003 Subaru crossed 100,000 miles, I was feeling a tad emotional and, as is the case with me when I get […]
Second Value: Do more for less. Jeff Bezos once said there are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. One of our core values is “do more for less” so it goes without saying we think of ourselves as the kind of company […]
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms by injustice. — Jeremiah 22:13 Third take on the first value: Do the right thing. When I learned that Robert Greenleaf’s epitaph reads ‘Potentially a good plumber; ruined by a sophisticated education,’ I couldn’t help but laugh. I suspect one day mine […]
Another take on the first value: Do the right thing. To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not be false to any man. — Shakespeare Harvin Moore was a partner in a Houston law firm before founding a business that, at its peak, was valued […]
