Do you know the one thing you can do to light the fire of motivation, energy, creativity, and self-propelled action in your employees?

We arrived in Chicago over the weekend to luxuriously appointed accommodations and much fanfare (that’s how it is when you’re the cast and crew of the No. 1 talk show in the quality industry).

(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- In the book, Health Care in the Next Curve (CRC Press, 2018), author John Abendshien takes an objectiv

In “Data Snooping Part 1” (Quality Digest, Aug. 6, 2018) we discovered the basis for the first caveat of data snooping.

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Mary Parker Follett, a pioneering business consultant, was asked to help a troubled window shade company. The company’s thinking was narrow and limited. When asked to define their business, they said, “We produce window shades.”

IMTS is almost here, so we previewed the show, considered an important industry-academia partnership within manufacturing, and asked serious questions about the nature of motivation. Let’s take a look:

 IMTS Preview

This week’s show contained a range of fun and interesting content from some of our favorite corners of the world of quality. Here’s what we covered:

(CBI UBM: Burlington, MA) -- IVT Network, the trusted source for life sciences validation and compliance knowledge, is featuring its flagship event, the 24th Annual Validation Week Oct. 22–24, 2018, in San Diego.