We have talked a lot in this column about how board shops should treat their customers. How they should try to get to know their customers and their needs. So now let’s switch things around and talk about how customers should treat board shops, how they should work with board shops to get the best […]
Book Recommendation – Learning to Succeed: Rethinking Corporate Education in a World of Unrelenting Change
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu Learning to Succeed: Rethinking Corporate Education in a World of Unrelenting Change By: Jason Wingard Copyright 2015 Amacom Price $29.95 Pages: 220 with Notes and Index You can never stop learning It’s time we took learning seriously. For many years things in business were static enough or at least […]
Book Recommendation – Lead With Humility: 12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu: Lead With Humility: 12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis By Jeffrey A. Krames Copyright 2014 Amacom Price: $14.00 Pages: 124 with source notes 12 great lessons from a great leader Now here is a guy who knows what he’s talking about. No I don’t mean Mr. Krames, although I’m sure […]
Book Recommendation – Lead With Humility: 12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu: Lead With Humility: 12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis By Jeffrey A. Krames Copyright 2014 Amacom Price: $14.00 Pages: 124 with source notes 12 great lessons from a great leader Now here is a guy who knows what he’s talking about. No I don’t mean Mr. Krames, although I’m […]
Book Recommendation -Leading with Cultural Intelligence: The Real Secret to Success second edition
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu Leading with Cultural Intelligence: The Real Secret to Success second edition By: David Livermore Copyright 2015 Amacom Price $26.95 Pages: 255 with Index A passageway to Global Leadership Let’s get right to it. Cultural Intelligence CQ is a measurement of your ability based on knowledge and experience to lead […]
Book Recommendation – EVERGREEN: Cultivate the Enduring Customer Loyalty That Keeps Your Business Thriving
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu: EVERGREEN: Cultivate the Enduring Customer Loyalty That Keeps Your Business Thriving By Noah Fleming Copyright 2015Amacom Price $26.00 Pages: 272 with Index Customer retention for the 21st century Maybe I like this book because I agree so wholeheartedly with the author. In fact one of the selling points of […]
Feds Cracking Down On Iran Embargo Violators
Author’s note: while this is a column I wrote almost two years ago, this problem hasn’t gone away. Feds Cracking Down On Iran Embargo Violators PCB exporter involved A good friend of mine knowing that I am such a strong advocate of ITAR sent me an article that appeared in the September 23 issue of […]
Catching up with Winonics’ Mark Eazell
I have always thought of Winonics as one of the hidden gems of the North American PCB industry. Their well-equipped and well-laid-out facility in Brea, California is one of the more impressive looking PCB facilities in North America today. Winonics is one of three PCB companies owned by JR Controls, the other two being Cosmotronic […]
Book Recommendation – Driven By Difference: How Great Companies Fuel Innovation through Diversity
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu: Driven By Difference: How Great Companies Fuel Innovation through Diversity By David Livermore Copyright 2016 Amacom Books Price: $27.95: 276 pages with appendix and index This book makes sense Diversity is a key to innovation in fact I strongly believe as many other well-minded people that diversity has always […]
Catching up with…Tom Kastner
When is the right time to sell your board house? Who is going to buy it? What is a buyer looking for in a PCB fabrication business? These are questions I hear all the time particularly in the past few months as many owners are reaching an age when they are thinking about retirement. So […]