With more than 110,000 expected attendees, IMTS is Chicago’s hottest suburb this week.

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).

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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:

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he federal government just made it a lot easier to form an employee-owned business.

When it comes to manufacturing, details are crucial. Every part of your product design is meticulously strategized, and quality control is integrated through the entire manufacturing process to guarantee the final product is exactly how it was intended.

Alan Colquitt is a student of the ways people act in the workplace.