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Director of Materials
Director of Materials Position Objective: Responsible for the overall leadership/management, direction and coordination of materials planning, procurement and scheduling. Ensures that material flows into the factory and/or the product distribution warehouse as required to support customer order schedules, while also minimizing inventory investment in dollars and space. Drive to reduce cost of purchased direct materials. Assure that product cost is accurately calculated. Relationship To Others: Direct management of materials planning and procurement personnel, including master schedulers, planner/buyers and procurement specialists. Responsible for standard costs and capital expenditure program. In-depth communication with various levels of all other Operations’ functions, as well as with personnel in Order Entry, Sales & Marketing, Engineering and Executive Management., and personnel in other Divisions at multiple locations. Regular communication with material and service … [Read More...]
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INFOGRAPHIC: Women and Mentoring in the U.S.
This is a guest post on best practices around social networking from Nicole Williams. It may not surprise you, but LinkedIn’s latest study found (in a survey of nearly 1,000 female professionals in the U.S.) that 82 percent of women agree that having a mentor is important. But what will knock your socks off is that considering the competitive employment landscape, and the universal belief that mentorship is a critical component to career success, 19 percent (that’s nearly one out of every five women) have NEVER had a mentor. Whether you are one of those people who have yet to take advantage of this career-advancing relationship or if you want to add another to your repertoire (yes, you can have more than one) here’s what you need to know. A Reason, a Season or a Lifetime: Start with the goal in mind. While typically referring to friendships, I find this is one of the most effective ways of wrapping your head around what you’re looking for in a … [Read More...]
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INFOGRAPHIC: Women and Mentoring in the U.S.
This is a guest post on best practices around social networking from Nicole Williams. It may not surprise you, but LinkedIn’s latest study found (in a survey of nearly 1,000 female professionals in the U.S.) that 82 percent of women agree that having a mentor is important. But what will knock your socks off is that considering the competitive employment landscape, and the universal belief that mentorship is a critical component to career success, 19 percent (that’s nearly one out of every five women) have NEVER had a mentor. Whether you are one of those people who have yet to take advantage of this career-advancing relationship or if you want to add another to your repertoire (yes, you can have more than one) here’s what you need to know. A Reason, a Season or a Lifetime: Start with the goal in mind. While typically referring to friendships, I find this is one of the most effective ways of wrapping your head around what you’re looking for in a mentor. Before you can address the where and how of it all, it comes down to having a very clear view of what you’re looking for. Whether it be the insight of an expert to help answer a specific question that’s haunting you, or finding someone you want to emulate for their poise and integrity; the better you’re able to define what you’re looking for, the more apt you are to find it. Always, be on the lookout: If there’s one piece of advice when it comes to finding a mentor it’s to think outside the box. We can easily get stuck thinking of mentorship as this formal, official way of relating to people in business; however, by narrowing our definition of who can help guide us in our careers, we can miss out on the potential mentors who are right under our noses (our neighbors, direct colleagues or even our relatives). More importantly, it ignores those we may have never met in our life but would be happy to answer a quick question if you make a common connection … [Read More...]
Warning: Your Attention is Under Siege
So I'm watching "Morning Joe" while running on my treadmill this morning and Mika Brzezinski asks her co-host Joe Scarborough a question. He looks at her blankly. This is live television. Then he acknowledges that he was distracted by something that appeared on the iPad on his desk. He's not alone. Do you find your mind wandering at times when people address you? Do you frequently switch from one activity to another? Do you have difficulty sustaining attention on a task and are you easily distracted by what's going on around you? Do you struggle to prioritize and organize activities? Do you dislike having to do work that requires really intense concentration? If you were honest, my guess is you answered yes to the majority of those questions — and perhaps to all of them. They also happen to be five of the key symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder. Who doesn't suffer from them, to one degree or another? What task did you just interrupt to read this blog, for example? Back in 1971 — the digital dark ages before cell phones, email, Google and the Internet — Nobel Prize winning economist Herbert Simon saw the tsunami coming. "What information consumes is rather obvious," he wrote, presciently. "It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." We're just beginning to recognize that multitasking isn't a solution. The brain is incapable of doing two cognitive tasks at the same time. Instead, it moves back and forth between tasks, sometimes giving us the illusion that we're paying attention to both, when in fact we're missing what's going on in one so long as we're doing the other. Text while you're driving and you're 23 times as likely to have an accident. In short, we're absorbing less and less of more and more. When we split our attention between multiple activities — or interrupt ourselves frequently — we lose access to essential details, but also to nuance, subtlety, texture, detail, … [Read More...]
