During the construction of the Lewis and Clark Class of ships for the Navy, a shipbuilding program at General Dynamic’s NASSCO shipyard in San Diego, California, we found ourselves with a problem. The first ship built had cost overruns of almost double the budget and the ship was not going to make the scheduled delivery …
Executives often wake up to find hundreds of emails in their inbox. Out of these hundreds there might be half that they entertain and read. Divide those in half and you might find the actual number of emails that get responses. Perhaps one more divide would result in messages that directly involve the individual executive. …
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In the Early 1990s, I held the position of Department Head of the Outfitting area at Electric Boat’s Quonset Point Facility. As I entered my 18th year of employment at Electric Boat, I was also completing my education by earning a master’s degree in industrial technology at Rhode Island College. One of my responsibilities was …
