Ed Marsh (IndustrialWeb3.eth) 🇺🇸

That’s going to end well… Why does everyone fret about trying to accommodate this aberrant behavior? And yes, I don’t care if it’s 53%, it’s still aberrant because it’s unsatisfactory for good business. Instead set the specific goal of hiring only 2nd & 3rd standard…

.@rspineanu recently joined me in the Industrial Growth Institute Podcast studio to talk about AI, manufacturing, industrial sales, entrepreneurship and more. He made some bold predictions about bespoke enterprise software. But he also made this fundamental point - referring…

I've been thinking a lot about the reaction to the concert video. There was lots of "live in glasshouse" commentary - probably appropriate. But something triggered massive schadenfreude. What's behind that? My theory is that we're all sick of the "rules for thee but not for…

Yeah, there may be a pot of gold at the end of the liquidity event rainbow, but selling a business while you're running it is all-consuming. Michael Horn knows. He did so. And his advice? Keep your eye on the ball. Sounds simple. Common sense. But like many things in business…

At the intersection of Michael Horn's training as an US Army officer, and his practical experience as a business executive - some simple but powerful recommendations. Michael's family company AC Horn experienced TWO emergency leadership successions through its history. It's an…

What could go wrong- just like a chipotle delivery.

The Zeitgeist has changed. We are mostly done with the pervasive "Rules for thee, but not for me" mindset. There were many glasshouses (probably appropriate) comments last week. But few people seemed to ask why the schadenfreude was so widespread? Stick a fork in it. Agree?

Often, something gets lost when you talk to industrial marketers and technical sales teams about empathy. It doesn't quite register because, after all, decisions are all fact-based. "No self-respecting engineer should let emotion creep into their decision making." That's a…

“For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.”- Oliver Wendell Holmes

After just three years in the family business, G4 Michael Horn found himself suddenly assuming the CEO role of his family's manufacturing business in an emergency succession. As he reflects back on that transition, and the later sale of the company to a strategic acquirer,…

Simplification vs. simplicity. What if we had a powerful heuristic to help us navigate a world of overwhelming information and complexity? We have the seven-second attention span of goldfish, we're told, and therefore everything must be implied into three bullet points and one…

When is the right time to sell a family owned industrial manufacturing company? Investment bankers, financial buyers, strategic corporate development teams - all will have different (self-serving) answers. But underneath it all is a wrenching decision. Family legacy (often the…

75% of US restaurant orders are delivery orders. DINING IN IS OUT.

Bastards.

insane things for 500

What if you're so locked into traditional ERP, MES, QMS, PLM thinking that you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic? What if those million-dollar projects that always run over budget and schedule, plus the astronomical annual costs, are as outdated as shrink-wrapped…

great conversation with @JimVinoski

.@worldscouting and making things. Are they just trite metaphors for a time we remember romantically? Or is there a connection, and do both offer value as we navigate a different and complex world? @JimVinoski knows both well, and during our recent conversation on the…

"Don't worry," the EXPERTS tell us, "Just pivot from SEO to GEO and your optimization and blog most inbound marketing model will keep on working." Upton Sinclair said "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."…