Archive for manufacturing SmartBlogs
While I wouldn’t go so far as call it a fun drinking game, it seems that many leadership brainiacs still like to amuse themselves by drawing the best distinction between managing and leading. Here’s my contribution to the discussion.
Managers find success in extracting the best job performance from direct reports. Leaders find success in inspiring those same people to contribute to the actual business.[…] Continue Reading »
The ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit annually showcases the importance of emerging technologies and sustaining them until they can get venture capital. But this year’s event last week was also a de facto referendum on the problems facing U.S. manufacturing.
It wasn’t just the obvious sessions – “Barriers to Domestic Manufacturing” and “Obstacles to a Manufacturing Workforce” – but also speakers repeatedly emphasizing similar sentiments and attendees sharing their stories in panel sessions or on Twitter.[…] Continue Reading »
This series is sponsored by CMI, where gray is the new green. Want to know why? Download our sustainability paper to learn more about how cans stand alone as the sustainable solution for 21st-century packaging. Pass it on. Cancentral.com/sustainability.
In two previous posts on this topic (“What makes the aluminum can so green?” and “The life of a can: How an aluminum can is made”), we’ve learned much about where aluminum cans come from.[…] Continue Reading »
This series is sponsored by CMI, where gray is the new green. Want to know why? Download our sustainability paper to learn more about how cans stand alone as the sustainable solution for 21st Century Packaging. Pass it on. Cancentral.com/sustainability.
Each day, pallets full of empty aluminum cans roll into bottling plants and roll out again full of beverages destined for supermarket shelves and convenience store coolers.[…] Continue Reading »
Some of the biggest names in global business will gather on Nov. 10 at BlogWell to share tips and strategies for working with social media. Newell Rubbermaid is among the presenters at the Atlanta event, and Senior Editor Mary Ellen Slayter recently asked Bert DuMars, vice president of e-business and interactive marketing, how the company is making the most of social media.[…] Continue Reading »
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