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If Trump Wants To Get Tough With Germany, Learn How They Do It
May 31, 2017
I realize Trump’s style is to blow off steam without any substantive understanding of the issues, but let’s play a little game. What if he seriously wanted to attack the trade gap between Germany and the United States? He would learn about how the Germans have organized themselves and imitate as much of it as […]
Tom Friedman Gets It Right. So Come to Scranton
May 24, 2017
It would be easy to make fun of Tom Friedman of the New York Times for his essay today. What? To understand what’s happening in America, he drove for four days from Indiana to Tennessee? He actually ventured into what New Yorkers regard as “flyover” territory? But it just so happens that he stumbled upon […]
Ford’s Mark Fields: A Classic Case of Failed Communications
May 23, 2017
I think the board of Ford Motor acted unfairly in sacking Mark Fields and replacing him with a 62-year-old furniture guy. But what’s done is done. What went wrong? As a long-time student of how CEOs communicate (see this book), Fields was not able to articulate a vision of how the company was incorporating the […]
How The ThinkPad Changed The World
May 16, 2017
Friends and family, I have a new book coming out next month and I’m asking everyone I know to pre-order it so the publisher gets the feeling that there is great demand for it. That will be crucial in deciding how many copies they print and how much promotion they give it. Go here to […]
Man Bites Dog: More Jobs Created in U.S. Than Offshored
May 16, 2017
These folks at the Reshoring Initiative are doing awfully important work. Reshoring Exceeded Offshoring in 2016: Policy Changes Needed to Maintain Momentum Kildeer, IL. May 15, 2017 — For the first time in decades, more manufacturing jobs are returning to the United States than are going offshore. The combined reshoring and foreign direct investment (FDI) […]
Jobs Summit Gains Momentum
May 16, 2017
Nereta Hosting National Summit Aimed at Creating Jobs in America’s Lagging Regions SCRANTON, Pa., May 16, 2017–The U.S. jobless rate may have dropped to 4.4 percent, the lowest level in more than a decade, but there are millions of Americans who cannot find jobs and employers report that they have millions of positions they cannot […]
