By:
Jim Thompson (jthompson@taii.com)
Last week, I was flying over an obviously closed large shopping mall in suburban Atlanta. Then coincidently, I read this week, that due to a combination of the Internet and the poor economy, it is expected that 15% of the 2,000 large malls in the United States will close in the next few years. This is a lot of cheap space, just waiting to be repurposed...
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Travis asks, "What organ may soon be manmade?"
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Nip Impressions tops the week, PaperMoney 2nd, Cellulose Community 3rd.
How you think about conversations
Travis asks, "Do you know this number?"
By:
Jim Thompson (jthompson@taii.com)
There is a coming revolution in maintenance, and it is coming on many fronts. We will only talk about one of these this week. It is called additive manufacturing.
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My friend Jim Thompson wrote recently about the horror of the school shootings and the equally bad horror of abortions. I'm going to take this into a different realm and write about animals, specifically cats.
What gained some and lost some?
By:
Jim Thompson (jthompson@taii.com)
Whether you are at the bottom looking up or on top looking down, knowing what motivates middle management in your organization is extremely important. I am not talking about what should motivate them (a sense of solid fiduciary responsibility, striving for excellence, and so forth); I am talking about what really motivates them--are they ethical, honest, energetic?
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Nip Impressions tops the week, PaperMoney 2nd, Cellulose Community 3rd.
Travis asks, "What do these items have in common?"
By:
Jim Thompson (jthompson@taii.com)
While processes are important, they are not as important as people and how they are directed. Sorry, my engineer and scientist friends.
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In reality, every year is a year of change, but 2012 seemed in many ways to be a watershed for the pulp and paper industry. Not all of the change was negative, but the overriding reflection is that the year has been one of an opportunity missed.
By:
J. Travis Hale, Ph.D.
I hope that individuals and businesses take a critical and comparative look at their paper use and their computing energy use, and I hope Google either returns to its "Don't be evil" principles or that savvy consumers start to hold the company more accountable for its behavior.
Nip Impressions tops the week, PaperMoney 2nd, Cellulose Community 3rd.
By:
Jim Thompson (jthompson@taii.com)
Companies with facilities near international borders have new worries.
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