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Why Blogging is Relevant to Wire Harness Companies Think about the different marketing channels for your company. What are your main goals? Retaining new customers and keeping your current [...]

Leading for Success: Tips to help you make your company great! by Paul Hogendoorn [email protected] I’m continuing the series of sharing tips I’ve learned from manufacturing companies and [...]

Leading to Win: Best practices learned from a 40-year career. By Paul Hogendoorn   I’m a half-dozen weeks into “non-employment”, which is a new and interesting condition for me. I’ve been [...]

Billboards and … Wire Harnesses?   By Loren Smith Why would messages on billboards that have nothing at all to do with our industry make me think of wire harness companies? When my wife and [...]

Finishing Well By Paul Hogendoorn What does it mean to “finish well,” and how important is it to do so? That’s a question I have thought about from time to time over the last dozen years, but [...]

You Don’t Always Score from the The Red Zone Getting the final steps of a deal done can be like moving the football down the field at the end of a close game … on the ground … a yard at a [...]

From the Editor Is the cosmos telling us something? In recent years, we have experienced events that have shaken and disrupted supply chains around the world. Fukushima revealed some single [...]

Sound Advice Years ago, when I was debating whether to leave a secure and promising position with a high-tech company to acquire a small (under $1M) wire harness company, I was fortunate to [...]

“Old is Gold” – Lessons learned from TB12 and Superbowl LV by Paul Hogendoorn I confess I am a big Tom Brady fan and was rooting for him to get number seven. Yes, I am in awe of Patrick [...]

The Critical Value of Purposeful Work How do your end up building a motorcycle in your family room? (Its not actually too difficult to explain). My wife and granddaughter have kept me plenty busy [...]