blue pencil

While some would believe good leaders are born and not made, I believe you can not translate any gift into talent without training and development.  It is a crime that they don’t have decent management training in engineering schools.  In the five years I studied Engineering at university there was plenty of technical slog but little to nothing on managing people.

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Management Commitment and Leadership is essential for an operation to realise goals related to both business success and continual improvement.  However, management and leadership are completely different attributes. Leaders are not always managers and some managers are poor leaders.

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Angelo Agresti - September 2008

Pundits suggest that establishing a proactive operation culture where maintenance and production people work in cooperation is the Holy Grail [*]. You’ve got to be kidding! Production and maintenance working in cooperation is fundamental to operational performance.

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