When we talk about job and career, there is always thinking that we must reach the career as high as possible. Actually career like a fortune for everyone because nobody can predict when they can get promotion. I have another definition of fortune is not same with lucky because there are two components inside (more…)
Unsure of how to decide what kind of manufacturing company might be a good fit for you? Start by considering a few basic questions.
What Do They Make?
What a company builds, quite obviously, will tell you a lot about the company (more…)
100 N. Riverside Plaza Chicago, IL 60606 Phone: 312-544-2000 www.boeing.com
Boeing is a wide body in the aerospace industry, commanding stature as a leader in both commercial aircraft and defense systems. Nevertheless, the skies have not been terribly friendly to mighty Boeing in recent years. It remains second to Lockheed Martin on the list of the nation’s largest defense (more…)
2030 Dow Center Midland, MI 48674 Phone: 517-636-1000 www.dow.com
The largest chemical company in the United States, and one of the largest in the world, Dow Chemical produces a broad array of plastics, chemicals, and pesticides. However, the future of plastics started looking a little less bright at the start of the decade when Dow posted a string (more…)
The automobile industry has been breaking new ground for more than 100 years, first in Europe with the invention of the automobile by Daimler and Benz, then through the introduction of mass production by Ford in Michigan, and finally through the introduction of lean production (more…)
Medical manufacturing has become one of the hottest areas in manufacturing. Furthermore, it’s one of the only areas in which companies have posted double-digit growth through the recent recession. Chalk this up to leaps in technology and to industry development. Companies like Medtronic and Boston Scientific produce not only implants like Vice President Dick Cheney’s defibrillator but also a host of surgical and (more…)
Who doesn’t know Client Eastwood? One of the best actors in the past, around 15 years ago, already played in some famous films. He has a strong character and it always appeared in his movie. He is my favorite actor when I was kid. I saw him in my favorite movie “In the line of fire” when (more…)
I already talk with my wife about her future career. Even right now she is sitting in the good position in the company but I have different vision about her. I know about her capability and her skill, nobody will doubt if she gets promotion to the higher position. But actually there are some resistant from (more…)
Let’s look at two different retirement scenarios based on some research done by T. Rowe Price Associates. They hypothetically invested $250,000 at the end of 1968. Sixty percent of the portfolio was invested in the S&P 500 index, 30 percent into U.S. government bonds, and 10 percent in U.S. thirty-day treasury bills. From January 1969 until January 1999 the portfolio had an average return of 11.7 percent. In the first (more…)
The very act of lengthening your time perspective, of thinking far into the future, changes your attitude and your personality. You begin the process of getting rich in America by thinking ahead ten or twenty years. As you do, you become more capable of setting bigger, longer term goals, and making long term plans for their accomplishment. You become more thoughtful about your decisions, and more sensitive to the long term consequences of the ways that you invest your (more…)
