David A Fields

MAY 30, 2017

Wouldn’t you like to plant yourself across the desk from a prospect who’s dripping with extra cash and happens to be afflicted with exactly the problem you solve? Of course you would. Unfortunately, most executives don’t seem to leave puddles of money in their footsteps. Plus, it’s tough to know whose pain is burning fiercely [ ]

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Markovitz Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

To their surprise, the tree planters faced stiff resistance—about 25% of the 7,500 homeowners they approached rejected the opportunity to have a free tree planted in front of their houses. Consequently, when TGD showed up to plant new trees, people were skeptical. Involve them in the decision.

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Conference Transportation Engineering Leadership 165

MishTalk

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As a result, GM is idling five plants for one to three weeks. GM car inventories are as high as they have been since November 2008. Ideal inventory levels are 60 days but 8 models have over 110 day’s of inventory. more…).

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David A Fields

MARCH 27, 2018

It’s Phyllis Phinsternoodle calling to inquire whether you can take on a quick, two-week project at her petunia plant. Should there even be a minimum? Absolutely! Brrrrng, brrrrng. No, she’s called back: it turns out she only needs you for one day. Oh wait, [ ]

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Consulting 170

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Today we learn Ford to cut production at five North American vehicle plants due to rising inventory and slumping sales. The Census Bureau revised sales estimates much lower in September as noted in Retail Sales Unexpectedly Decline, Huge Negative Revisions in June and July: Reflections on “Bizarre” Sales Reports. more…)

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Markovitz Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

To their surprise, the tree planters faced stiff resistance—about 25% of the 7,500 homeowners they approached rejected the opportunity to have a free tree planted in front of their houses. Consequently, when TGD showed up to plant new trees, people were skeptical. Involve them in the decision.

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Conference Transportation Engineering Leadership 113

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

All those factors have been taking a heavy toll on the plants in question. Another problem is demand for small and mid-size cars in the U.S. has plunged, and consumers haven’t been flocking to buy GM’s hybrid Chevy Volt.

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Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 29, 2019

According to the WSJ article, Culp is often away from GE’s headquarters, visiting manufacturing plants to see how employees work and how the operations are running. Plants where leaders infrequently reviewed performance indicators and targets, and promoted employees based on tenure or connections rather than achievement, fared worse."

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Last year, president Obama visited GE's 106-year-old Waukesha, Wisconsin plant. At the plant, GE builds large piston engines for power and oilfield use that run on natural gas or methane from landfills. President Obama called the plant “ a model for the country.” This week, GE announced that it will move production to Canada.

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Markovitz Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

John Shook describes how within the constellation of GM plants, the Fremont plant went from worst to first in quality in one year, with a 180-degree turnaround in culture, all while keeping the same workers. (In I pointed this out to the plant manager last week. Shame on me for not seeing this problem earlier.

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Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

He’s knowledgeable and experienced, but he’s been unable to get traction at the main plant. Most of his plant leadership team was recently promoted from front-line roles. My friend Bob is struggling to get a lean transformation started at his new company.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2023

Unfortunately, while emissions remain in the atmosphere around 1,000 years, possibly longer, a tree can only remove carbon for its lifespan of 10o or so years, which means a forest planted as a carbon offset must be maintained with trees replanted at least ten times to match the emission it is offsetting.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A recent analysis of 35,000 manufacturing plants found that those with more-structured management practices were more likely to acquire ones with less-structured practices.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The physical plant is virtually identical, and the marketing and promo are the same. There are two franchised pack-and-ship shops about equidistant from my home. One has a 4.5 rating and is reliably busy. The other has an astonishingly low 1.5 out of 5 rating. The only difference is the owner running the second shop.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2022

We need measures to help people, animals, and plants survive the climate crisis.

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Markovitz Consulting

MARCH 12, 2019

But try getting a plant manager, or the leadership team of a company, to commit the necessary time and attention when they see lean as simply another training and development offering of the HR department. John Shook and others have written extensively about how lean is a socio-technical system, not just a collection of tools.

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MishTalk

MAY 25, 2016

France is running out of gasoline thanks to massive strikes at all the refineries. The strike spread to air traffic … Continue reading →

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Chad Barr

JANUARY 12, 2022

This coming Sunday, January 16 th , begins Tu B’shvat, the 15 th day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, where in Israel, the birthday of fruit trees will be celebrated with the planting of saplings all around the country as it is each year.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

If it’s worth having a better system, it might be worth shutting down the entire plant when the system breaks. There are lots of rewards for heroic saves at work. But heroic saves undermine the desire to build better systems.

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Kai Davis

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As I think about growing my Jasmine (and other fragrant plants and vines), this quote from management guru Peter Drucker has been on my mind: “[only] what gets measured, gets managed.” How often I’m watering and fertilizing my plants. .” How often I’m watering and fertilizing my plants.

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

And… when a bank or an investor is considering two power plants, and they discover that the coal plant is 1% more profitable in the short run but 100x worse for the community, they go for pennies instead of resilience. Until a shipment is late and then it all grinds to a halt.

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Markovitz Consulting

JULY 25, 2017

These are the words of a front-line worker at a company I visited recently: “I’ve been complaining about this to the plant managers for two years, but no one listened to me. The saddest words are these: “no one listened to me.” No, this is not the title of a country song.

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Seth Godin Blog

MAY 26, 2022

You’ll be planting trees through a certified not-for-profit B corp… more than 100,000,000 planted so far. If you switch and then you forward this to five more people who switch, we’re likely to plant another 100,000,000 trees in the next year. Faster, free, and more convenient.

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 24, 2023

Unfortunately, toxic offices, plants, stores, and managers abound. Servant Leadership is the antidote to toxic workplaces. Too often companies take advantage of employees and treat them as lower class citizens. Employees want and need leaders who are humane, empathetic and skilled in emotional intelligence.

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Kai Davis

JANUARY 16, 2023

Up to this date, we’ve booked close to 1,300 podcast interviews for us and our customers and planted 1,300 trees (yeah, we plant a tree per interview). The 1-hour call with you in the beginning of my journey made a true difference and allowed me to influence millions of people (listeners) all around the world. Thanks again.

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Using diagnostic protocols, Brimstone interviewed various leaders throughout the organization, from plant managers to European sales leaders to the senior leadership team. The diagnostic protocols identified broad support from the leadership team and rapidly growing support for sustainability internally and externally.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Whether to shut a plant, open a store, create a division, invest in a new technology… That’s the part that creates the most value. Big company CEOs get paid ridiculous amounts of money, but the good ones also do something that most of us avoid. They make decisions. In fact, that’s pretty much the core of the job.

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MishTalk

JULY 7, 2017

For details, please see Rachel Maddow Accuses Trump of Planting Fake Documents Implicating Trump. Just a bit ago, I mocked MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow for her convoluted allegation that Trump may have sent MSNBC fake documents implicating himself in regards to Russia. Glen Greenwald at The Intercept also challenges Maddow.

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MishTalk

JULY 30, 2014

Please consider US Exports Help Germany Increase Coal, Pollution LUENEN, Germany - One of Germany’s newest coal-fired power plants rises here from the banks of a 100-year-old canal that once shipped coal mined from the Ruhr Valley to the world. power plant relies completely on coal imports, about half from the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Actively fund construction on a new coal plant? Dump garbage from your factory into the river? The atmosphere? Play loud music at midnight in your apartment? Not get a polio vaccine for kids? No right answers, but urgent questions at scale.

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The Source

DECEMBER 9, 2019

It’s a room much like all those other rooms he’s encountered on his job search: Several chairs, the token potted plant, untouched issues of Consulting magazine. Fifteen minutes to wait. Mark sits down and looks round. He hasn’t been massively impressed by the selection process so far.

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Alan Weiss

JUNE 28, 2022

I knew nothing about pickup trucks when my wife and I decided we needed one to haul animal food, plants, and for forth. I didn’t then go to the web and troll auto sites, I asked someone I knew who is an automotive expert what he suggested for my needs. Based on that I quickly purchased a Toyota Tacoma. (He

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Big tech likes to talk about the last mile problem–how to get a wire, a system or a concept from where the nodes are easy to plant to where people actually are. It’s the first mile.

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 11, 2020

Great non-fiction helps us see the unseen, plants and nurtures ideas that matter, and, sometimes, can leave us better than we were. Isabel Wilkerson’s new book Caste does all of those things. It uses language, analogy and history to pull together disparate threads into a coherent, devastating whole. Highly recommended.

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Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

When a new saw from Festool comes out, the thoughtful design plants a seed for the home woodworker. A new saw might have a story. A home woodworker isn’t cutting wood for a living–it’s a hobby. From that moment on, every cut with the old saw feels like a compromise or even an insult.

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Journal Course Culture Marketing 41

Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The people who work at a Lexus plant aren’t more tired at the end of the day than those that make the Cadillac Escalade. And yet, when we look at organizations or brands or individuals with a reputation for quality, it’s not at all clear that they accomplish this with more effort. Because that’s simply not sustainable. It’s not about effort.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 15, 2014

Efforts by the United Auto Workers to unionize a Tennessee Volkswagen plant failed today in spite of the fact that Volkswagen choose to cooperate closely with the UAW. Mistrust Sinks Deal By a vote of 712 to 626 the UAW Suffers Big Loss at Tennessee VW Plant. XE +1.10% ''s plant in Chattanooga, Tenn.

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