On any given consulting engagement, we typically hear management lamenting its inability to hire and keep good people. Nearly every key manager points out that today's workers are not like yesterday's and then usually goes on to disparage the quality of his or her workforce. Sadly, these managers are ignoring the best competitive weapon U.S. firms have — the very employees they are complaining about. And for a manufacturing company, its engineers and designers are some
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