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Top 7 New Years Resolutions for Manufacturers
Here are the Top 7 New Years Resolutions for Manufacturers I hear regularly – but you need to start now if any of them are on your list...
Paul Hogendoorn
Dec 5, 20246 min read
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Entrepreneurial Epiphanies: "What's Your Superpower?"
A great question asked of me recently was, " what is your superpower? ". It was asked by the chairman of one of the companies I founded,...
Paul Hogendoorn
Nov 22, 20245 min read
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The Humanity of Technology
How often do many of us now look at a picture and wonder if it's real or the output of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm? What...
Darren Reiniger
Nov 18, 20244 min read
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Entrepreneurial Epiphanies: "How did you do that?.."
Its amazing how clearly things come to mind, once you stop building your own business and start helping others build theirs', and you get...
Paul Hogendoorn
Nov 4, 20242 min read
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Circle(s) of Life?
No, I'm not referring to the Elton John song, although ikigai speaks to that very thing in many ways. After discussing my unique skills...
Darren Reiniger
Oct 28, 20245 min read
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Dreams of Youth
I want to take some time to explore ikigai further after my 1st blog touching on the topic - Nothing is set in stone ( tpi-3.ca ) . Now,...
Darren Reiniger
Oct 14, 20245 min read
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Links to TPI-3 Blogs by Topic
Quick links to blogs that have been written by people that have travelled the journey you may be traveling, based on their personal and...
Paul Hogendoorn
Oct 11, 20242 min read
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Nothing is set in stone
The above phrase certainly holds if I've learned anything over the years. The journey can diverge and move forward and backward, yet...
Darren Reiniger
Sep 27, 20245 min read
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The Day My Favourite Band Came To Town
I couldn’t believe the news when I first heard that one of my all-time favourite rock and roll bands was coming to my city, London, Ont.,...
Paul Hogendoorn
Sep 16, 20244 min read
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Sympathy for the Salesman
Sometimes I feel sorry for sales people. They get so little love. They are often underappreciated and unsupported, especially considering...
Paul Hogendoorn
Aug 27, 20243 min read
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How to Keep Your Engineering Team Accountable and On Time
For Engineer to Order manufacturing operations, visibility and accountability to target dates are as important in the engineering...
Paul Hogendoorn
Aug 25, 20243 min read
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Finding the Easy Sales to Grow Your Manufacturing Business
Most manufacturing companies I know have only a handful of customers, and the sales process is a matter of keeping their customers happy...
Paul Hogendoorn
Jul 24, 20243 min read
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Better Planning Delivers the Best ROI
Everything in manufacturing comes down to two things: planning and execution (production). Automation and robots are all about execution....
Paul Hogendoorn
Jul 17, 20244 min read
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Time is Money - that's why you should measure it wisely!
Most of us have heard the term “time is money”. In manufacturing, time really is money, so to improve as a company, its very important to...
Paul Hogendoorn
Jun 21, 20244 min read
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AI for Manufacturing - the Good, the Bad and the "Meh"
AI has arrived. Everywhere you look, everything you read, and everything you hear, AI is said to be the big “what’s next”. The truth is,...
Paul Hogendoorn
Jun 17, 20244 min read
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Marketing Done Right
In a recent blog, in which I expressed my view that “Marketing Manager” is just another title for “Accountant” (no offense intended to...
Paul Hogendoorn
Apr 27, 20244 min read
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Marketing Manager is (often) just another name for Accountant
Marketing Manager is often just another name for Accountant. No offense to accountants - their job is what it is, keeping track of the...
Paul Hogendoorn
Apr 8, 20244 min read
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Don't Ignore Your Entrepreneurial Compass
When I started this series based on my own entrepreneurial journey, I had pretty much shaped this blog out in my mind fully when out of...
Paul Hogendoorn
Jan 16, 20243 min read
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Challenging Times Are the Best of Times for Entrepreneurs
We all crave stability and certainty, but we live in unstable and uncertain times. Its true that every generation has lived through...
Paul Hogendoorn
Dec 27, 20234 min read
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Understanding the Entrepreneur in Your Life
Maybe you work for an entrepreneur led company, maybe you are the entrepreneur that founded and leads the company, maybe you are an...
Paul Hogendoorn
Dec 3, 20234 min read
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