Sep 30, 2026

Greg Harrod noticed something strange partway through a career leading cross-functional teams in manufacturing. He was getting more and more of the work he was best at, and enjoying it less and less.

That is not a workload problem. It is a sorting problem.

We hand out work based on two things. Is this person good at it,...

Sep 23, 2026

Walk into most plants and you’ll hear the same thing. The new, younger people need everything spelled out. The veterans just go do it.

New research says that’s backwards. Seventy-six percent of Gen Z expect clear expectations of their performance and responsibilities. Among Boomers it’s 98 percent, and it climbs...

Sep 16, 2026

Dr. Sunita Sah asked nurses in a large hospital what stopped them from speaking up about medical errors. They gave her two answers. They were afraid of the repercussions, and they had learned that speaking up changed nothing. Then she asked their managers the same question. The managers did not name fear or...

Sep 9, 2026

You walk in Friday morning and the material is still sitting in quarantine. It was supposed to be relabeled and moved out Thursday, and you need that space today because corporate is walking the floor tomorrow.

What happens in the next ten seconds decides the whole conversation.

Trevor takes one real scenario from a...

Sep 2, 2026

Karin Lindner has spent fourteen years trying to make manufacturing attractive to the people who work in it, and she says it is still not there. Her new book, Making Manufacturing Sexy, argues that most manufacturing leaders are not leading. They are surviving, stuck in a system that rewards firefighting.

Karin and...