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Video: AFS Participates in National Manufacturing Day
In this video on
www.metalcastingtv. com, the American Foundry Society hosted more than 400 students,
neighbors and local dignitaries in an open house Oct. 2 at its headquarters in Schaumburg, Ill. National Manufacturing Day is an annual event with the aim of encouraging students to pursue careers in manufacturing.
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Book Review: Leadership Wreck
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You should expect that a book titled “Leadership BS” isn’t exactly onboard with much of the advice you fi nd in the business management section of the bookstore. One of the fundamental criticisms offered by Jeffrey Pfeffer charges that the so-called “leadership industry” is overrun by self-anointed experts. Without any barriers to entry, what distinguishes a quack from a luminary? That question should warrant a
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healthy dose of skepticism. But Pfeffer, being a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University, has the qualifi cations to ask. In “Leadership BS,” he brings evidence and data from social science research and offers practical solutions in questioning many commonly accepted “truths.” Take the lip service paid to the desired traits of modesty, relatability and honesty in leaders. Most businesses emphasize such characteristics, Pfeffer argues, while many people who reach an organization’s upper echelons are anything but. Immodesty and narcissism certainly can be useful traits in certain situations. But a business needs to be honest and not incentivize behavior it claims to discourage.—Nicholas Leider, Associate Editor Read more online at
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