Inspirational writer Bruce Van Horn tweeted this recently: “Did you wake up this morning wondering what this day will bring? Instead, decide what you will bring to this day! Happen to your life!” Reminded me of one of my chief ambitions: PalletOne leaders happen to the world! To have a mindset that you can enter […]

The baseball team I follow, the Tampa Bay Rays, is involved in a race to make the playoffs in Major League Baseball. Every night they are in a “must win” situation. They have several teams trying to overtake them. The competition raises the urgency. I can’t wait to see the results. It’s so much more […]

I jotted down this quote the other day: “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.” – Jim Rohn Do […]

Along with wasted time and material, wasted motion is a key target for lean operations. The work done in our plants of building pallets and fence, sawing wood and operating lifts and loaders is demanding. When the day is done, our teammates have handled thousands of pounds of material, driven thousands of nails and moved […]