A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu. Nonstop Sales Boom: Power Strategies to Drive Consistent Growth Year After Year By: Colleen Francis Copyright 2014Amacom Price $17.95 Pages: 280 with Index This one has it all! Yes I’ll use the cliché, if you are going to buy and read and study and teach from and hand out […]
ITAR: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, And The Very Ugly
Has there ever been a more nebulous qualification than ITAR? It’s one of those things that everyone has an opinion about but no one knows that much about. To some of us it’s a game with ever- changing rules and to others its simply something to overcome, while to others is something to ignore altogether. […]
Book Recommendation – No Sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can bring you a Lifetime of Fitness
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu: No Sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can bring you a Lifetime of Fitness By Michelle Segar Ph.D. Copyright 2015 Amacom Price $16.95 Pages: 241 with Index A great common sense book about fitness and exercise Look people don’t do things they don’t want to do and they […]
Book Recommendation – Meetings That Get Results: From the Brian Tracy Success Library
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu: Meetings That Get Results: From the Brian Tracy Success Library Copyright 2016 Amacom Price $9.95 Pages: 105 with Index A must for every manager’s library. How many times have you sat in seemingly interminable meetings waiting for the leader to get on with it…to get to the point; or […]
Book Recommendation – Make it Matter: How Managers Can Motivate by Creating Meaning
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu Make it Matter: How Managers Can Motivate by Creating Meaning By Scott Mautz Copyright 2015Amacom Price $24.95 Pages: 250 with Index Making it matter motivates people Look it’s pretty straightforward isn’t it? People work harder and are much more passionate when they know that what they are doing has […]
Why Best Buy Will Go Out Of Business
And why they don’t have to Have you been to Best Buy lately? If you have you’ll see a store that is going to go out of business, sooner than later. And the shame of it there is no need to. Last Saturday I dropped off a computer because the “J” key had come off […]
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 […]
How To Get The Most From Your PCB Vendors
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 […]
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 […]