X-Rite Showcases Innovative Digital Color Workflow Solutions at NPE2024
(X-Rite: Grand Rapids, MI) -- As the urgency of climate change grows, the global plastic market faces increasing pressure to minimize its environmental impact.
Cultivating a Culture of Candor
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Instead of encouraging employees to be vulnerable (exposing themselves to risk), leaders need to act in ways that reduce the risk or danger. Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash.
I’ve learned so much from Timothy R. Clark of the firm LeaderFactor, and author of the excellent book, The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety (Berrett-Koehler, 2020).
How to Energy Audit Your Work
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Tailor your tasks to spend more time tapping into your strengths. Photo by Riccardo Annandale on Unsplash.
If you ever feel like some parts of your work turbocharge your day while other parts leave you running on empty, it might be time for an energy audit.
Leadership Should Be a Team Sport
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Although the concept of followership is often associated with hierarchy, in organizations the reality is that important things are accomplished through meaningful discussions between groups of peoplehorizontally. Photo by Leah Hetteberg on Unsplash.
Just as there’s no yin without yang, there’s no leadership without followership. The two interdependent and complementary roles can’t exist without each other.
Researchers Create Faster, Cheaper Way to Print Tiny Metal Structures With Light
(Georgia Institute of Technology: Atlanta) -- Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a light-based means of printing nano-sized metal structures that is significantly faster and cheaper than any technology currently available.
High-Temperature Superconducting Magnets Are Ready for Fusion
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Image: Gretchen Ertl
In the predawn hours of Sept.
Nikon Metrology Releases ‘AI Reconstruction’
(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- IMBU releases “AI Reconstruction,” an innovative 3D computed tomogra
Customer-Hostile Policies Feed Customer-Hostile Cultures
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Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash.
It’s important to have customer-friendly policies if you want to have a great customer service culture. Your policies drive team behaviors, so be sure they’re consistent with the brand you want to put forward.
W10 Photoelectric Proximity Sensor
(SICK: Minneapolis) -- All in one, one for all: With the new W10 photoelectric proximity sensor, SICK presents a sensor that can be used to solve a wide range of detection tasks in automation technology more universally than ever before.
Direct Air Capture Is a Waste of Carbon and Money
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Photo by Juan Davila on Unsplash.
In his Quality Digest article published in February 2023, Michael Mills1 reported that the next version of ISO 9001 will add to clause 4.1, “Understanding the organization and its context” the words, “the organization shall determine whether clima