Tech tools take some new learning skills.

Are you throwing away things you shouldn’t or keeping things you should throw away?

Leaving your shop is the best way to find the answers to spur your growth.

To stay competitive, small woodworking businesses need to embrace improvement, much like their larger counterparts. Yet, navigating change poses a significant challenge. With limited resources at their disposal, small businesses find investing in change particularly straining.

Are you hopelessly stuck in the status quo and unwilling to make the change you need?

Are you looking to technology to solve your problems without making the effort yourself?

Let’s establish a simple basic difference between Lean and Six Sigma and then determine an effective way to utilize both concepts to improve your operational efficiencies.

The debate on productivity enhancement is constant throughout companies and organizations as well as entire countries. It's a critical ingredient for competitive advantage and expansion, yet there's variance in what constitutes productivity and how to measure it. At the national level, countries may assess productivity based on gross output. Businesses might gauge success and competitiveness by overall production. While this metric offers some insight, its real value emerges when you consider the output relative to the workforce size of the assessed entity.

The MOU represents what every American logger and Forest Service employee should understand. We are now encouraged and expected to work together to produce healthy forests, healthy timber markets, and a healthy logging industry.

A recent article by Frank Stronach, founder of one of the most successful automotive supply manufacturers in the world, Magna International, uses Canada as an example of how countries have deteriorated their competitiveness and standards of living. He also suggests a solution if we are to stop the decline of Canada’s economy and raise the standard of living for its people.To read the full article go to The rest of the world is leaving Canada in the dust.