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And Your People Can Help You Get There “All entrepreneurs experience setbacks, but successful entrepreneurs move from one setback to the next without losing their motivation.” Steve Jobs struggled with his business as he tried to sell computers and was even kicked out of his own business for some period, but he didn’t let that stop him. Jobs later took a risk in buying Pixar in the hopes of creating a computer hardware company. In…

The skills shortage has been a problem since the dawn of the modern corporate system. Both companies and employees have not been able to keep pace with the rapid changes in almost every industry. The lack of skilled staff can obstruct or even stop some long-standing operations. Recently, many manufacturing-related jobs that require a highly specific skill-set are going unfilled. This situation is the result of an entire generation heading towards retirement without passing…

Let’s face it – most people don’t grow up fantasizing working in woodworking. Even after flying, firefighting, policing, you-tubing, instagramming, snap chatting, and countless others are exhausted – some may like woodworking as a hobby or reminisce about the walnut cabinet they built in their shop class – but even fewer still see it as a viable long-term career choice. The key is to attract a future generation of woodworkers to your business by developing…