My experience is primarily business development and marketing in the imaging equipment manufacturing sector. Previous employers: Kodak, Xerox, Creo, and Folded Wing Designs Inc. (a furniture manufacturing company I started in 2003 and shut down in 2005; bootstrapping is highly over-rated).
I've been following Complexity Science since it started to be a distinct term (I think this was in the early '90s). Within CS, the concepts of randomness, emergence, entropy, and self-organization are what interest me the most. But don't forget power laws and fractals and...
I'm lucky to be a mostly injury-free runner and enjoy the longer, slower runs during which one can generate the emdorphins. I try to read a book every week, but lately have been finding that to keep the pace, the books need to be a lot shorter than they used to.
My thoughts on ...
What I think about low-cost manufacturing
Low-cost mfg. a neutral term. Low cost does not necessarily mean low quality; (and high cost does not necessarily mean high quality). The term is a hot-button because it is associated with US job losses. This association is warranted. Short-term thinking on the part of American firms (outsource to China rather than make capital investments in modern equipment and worker training in the US) is what made "low-cost" a dirty word. HOW low cost is achieved is what we need to work on.
A book I recommend to others or am currently reading
"The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
One of my favorite quotes
Mark Twain was asked his opinion of the music of Richard Wagner. Twain replied: "It's better than it sounds."
Someone I would most like to sit next to at a dinner party
Barbara Kingsolver, author of The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, and Prodigal Summer (among many others). The combination of her interests, sensibilities, and narrative skills is unequaled
Some of the countries I have visited for work or play
Ireland, Israel, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and North Carolina
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