Pick Up the Pick-Up
In the Winter of 2010, I got a call from the owner of our company telling me to go pick up Crummy, our company truck.
Roll On
In February 2012, on the #10 paper machine of a client's paper mill, our firm's millwrights were changing out four felt rolls as a part of a 1-day shutdown. The work had been planned and scheduled accordingly.
Stop Hideous Behavior
In Spring of 2002 at the construction company I was working for back then, we were just getting prepared for the new season. With the volume of request for bids we were responding to, we expected a major spurt of growth.
Smooth Sailing
About three years ago our barge construction company decided to take the lofting department from the manual methods of the 1970's into the modern technologies of the 1990's, and hopefully on into the 21st Century by switching from handmade drawings and 1/10 scale lofting to computerized lofting.
Weekend of Worry
Last Friday afternoon, I spent some time at our tube forging plant. While visiting with our Materials Manager, I learned the details of a proposed commercial transaction between our company and one of our competitors.
What’s the Score?
At the kickoff of the Leadership Development Lab (LDL) for a Kapuskasing, Ontario paper mill, Terry, the Site Manager, made a presentation on the importance of change and improving the performance of their #5 paper machine.
Aesop’s Fables
A Miller and his son were driving their donkey to a neighboring fair to sell him. They had not gone far when they met with a troop of women collected around a well, talking and laughing.
Say – “We Dig What You Do”
Two weeks ago while my crew was digging a ditch from the plant blower building on our job at the Forest Grove Clean Water facility, I overheard our excavator operator complimenting one of our laborers down in the ditch.
Reflecting on a Broken Mirror
A few weeks ago, we had a bad storm. The intense wind pushed a tree on my street down - right onto my car.
Closing the Sale
A few weeks ago, I observed a member of our sales team who seems to do well as far as getting appointments, arousing interest in meeting, achieving all the technical aspects and presenting the customer with desirable solutions - but he seems to have a great deal of trouble closing the contract.
Larry W. Dennis, Sr. President,
Turbo Leadership Systems©