A surge in orders for plastics and metals have helped power the world’s largest economy past a global slowdown.

It isn’t exactly news—manufacturing production lines are heading back to the States en masse, but there aren’t enough trained techs ready to staff them. Baby Boomers—our proverbial Old Guard—are retiring, leaving unfilled jobs for the unskilled—and some say uninterested—masses.

Yes, it’s true that teams can be ineffective, time-sucking entities. But they don’t have to be that way. Well-run teams are creative, innovative and effective.

In “Only the Paranoid Survive,” Andrew Grove, the former CEO of Intel, discusses “strategic inflection points”—times when an industry’s fundamentals change significantly. Many businesses do not survive them.

Alot has been written about the definition of quality and just about every organization has its own definition.

It seems that even a cursory browsing of a subject on a search engine will unearth the easy “steps” for accomplishing something.

Global capital project and infrastructure spending is expected to reach $9 trillion annually by 2025.