Every year, as we approach Expo, the enthusiasm at the ATRA home office rises to a fever pitch. Folks are busy putting the finishing touches on their...
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This issue is GEARS Magazine’s silver jubilee. It’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years since we first started publishing GEARS.
It’s common when...
Training isn’t always going to be interesting or fun. Sometimes learning the basics may seem boring or stupid. But they’re necessary if you’re going to...
In the last issue of GEARS, I presented my thoughts for the graduating class of 2017. I congratulated this year’s graduates and made some observations about...
Every year around this time, students all across the country are finishing school and venturing out into a new phase of life as a working adult. I think of...
You know that hotel chain? The one that ends their ads with, “We’ll leave the light on for you”? I started thinking about that this week while the Torque...
In the March issue of GEARS, we covered some ideas for creating your company’s mission statement. Hopefully you’ve given the idea some thought and come up...
Everyone in the business world has heard of a mission statement and the importance for a business to have one. But, if you’ve ever looked at some...
One of the most famous quiz shows in history was You Bet Your Life, created especially for Groucho Marx. At the beginning of each show, Groucho told his...
Last month, all manner of broadcast communication — TV, radio, and internet — was interrupted to present the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro...
Vilfredo Pareto, a 19th century Italian economist, maintained that 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This idea came to him from an observation...
The solution to a problem as well as new opportunities are all around us but too often they don’t fit the image we expect or we’re so focused on what we...
Over the past thirty years I’ve had the pleasure of meeting hundreds of business owners and seeing, firsthand, how they run their shops. These shops run the...
Whenever you get businesspeople together to discuss management strategies, someone’s sure to drag out this old chestnut: The beatings will continue until...
One of the most popular TV shows of the mid-’60s was Gilligan’s Island. It was the epitome of a show that was so bad it was good. It told the story of...
At the 2015 ATRA Powertrain Expo we covered a lot of topics in the management sessions; many were focused on leadership and employee development. One of the...
In the January issue of GEARS Magazine, we discussed a change in our industry that is likely to have a dramatic effect on your business. We characterized it as...
This issue marks the 100th article I’ve written under the column heading “From the CEO.”
100 From the CEOs… Wow! That’s a lot of articles. Who’d...
This is my final From the CEO for 2015; the next time you’ll get a chance to argue with one of my published rants, another year will have past into...
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