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The Cement Floor Doesn’t Lie

You’ve been slogging along for 40 years and the cement floor bites harder every day. You are wondering if it is time to sell the company, but you have no idea what it is worth or if anybody would want it. I’ve been helping folks buy and sell machining businesses

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Should We Forget?

I have been struggling to write this blog for over a year now, but it is a topic I really want to discuss, because it

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Hoping Against Hope

I read Matthew Stewart’s long, insufferable guilt laden essay last night, “The Birth of a New Aristocracy,” which is the cover story of the June Atlantic. Stewart recounts

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The Retirement Question

Is retirement a curse or a blessing? Obviously, there is no single answer to the question. I have answered the question for myself without a

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Hiring Line

The Precision Machined Products Association (PMPA) Tech Conference just ended, and I had a chance to talk to many of the stalwarts in the machining

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Profilometer

I’m writing this blog in my new favorite Starbucks in Flossmoor, Illinois. All of the employees are African American women. I am one of three

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