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Top 10 Tips: Successful manufacturers get things done. I’m continuing the Top 10 Tips gleaned from successful companies and leaders that I’ve worked with over my 40-year career. Although the two [...]

Rubbing two sticks together to make fire By Paul Hogendoorn Its tough starting a business. Its not for the faint of heart. The first challenge is the biggest – getting it started – but then [...]

Co-op Students the Key to Plant Managers’ Success By Paul Hogendoorn As I continue to share the Top 10 Tips I gleaned from industry leading manufacturers over my 40 year career, I almost missed [...]

The Lure of the Entrepreneurial Life At the beginning of my recent WHMA webinar, I mentioned moving my new blended family from Boston to a town of 1000 in rural Iowa years ago to acquire a small, [...]

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 [...]