On the Sidelines

I’m frustrated talking about the Body Gap and its impending impact on our economy. Too many people fail to clearly see the magnitude of the issue and even experts continue to misapply Skills Gap solutions. We need more workers to keep the economy moving. The recent...

Serious Message from the East – Engage!

Many of you chide me about my connections to the Harvard Business School – most of time deservedly so. It’s a unique place moderately connected to reality – especially our reality here in the Midwest. There’s definitely an East Coast bias and many times the graduates...

Cybersecurity Excitement

Learning new things excites me. A recent trip to Detroit proved it again as our MEP National Network team worked to make sense of cybersecurity for Small- and Medium-sized Manufacturers (SMMs) across the country. It’s a fascinating quest because the subject area is so...

Field Trip to a Digital Leader

I’ve been a change catalyst my whole career, turning around businesses in multiple industries. Bringing companies back from the edge of death creates unique challenges in both financial and cultural management – maximizing cash flows and building strong teams. I’ve...

Linear People. Exponential Change.

I had great fun last week keynoting the Additive Manufacturing Conference at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), partly because engineering is a bit of an alien profession to me. Engineers pursue detail with a passion, while I’m more of a big-picture guy. It...