Matthew Kirchner

Matthew Kirchner Columnist

The Perfect Trade Show Booth

Successful trade show booths are all about the details. Set your company apart, secure new clients and grow your business.

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The First Rule of Networking

Execution — getting things done in business and organizations — comes down to much more than tactics. It comes down to discipline and having a system.

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What is Consultative Selling?

Consultative selling means genuinely caring about the success of our customers as much, if not more, than the success of our own business.

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Waking Up to a World Without Manufacturing

Virtually everything humanity holds or uses owes its existence to our sector.

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What To Do When a Team Member Boils Over

The art of listening goes a long way in easing a team member’s anxiety.

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New Software Never Solved a Problem. Ever.

A new software solution is never the solution to the challenges facing a business, it can only be a tool to be used in the solution to a problem.

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basics

When To Discount? Never.

Consider strategies to offer more value for the same price.

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The Consolation Hire

Never, ever compromise and hire a person unless you’re confident they will succeed in the role.

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A Life Lesson from a Quiet Titan of Finishing

Bill Nimtz was always most comfortable around the genuine and the ordinary. I think his kinship with people, all people, is what drove him to share a lesson that has stuck with me for decades.

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A Gold Standard Industrial Engineer

What defines a “Gold Standard Engineer?” Find out in this installment of PF’s Never Finished column by Matthew Kirchner.

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What’s In Your Infinity.0 Toolbox?

A finisher’s familiarization with the data already available from their smart equipment is a key component of the Infinity.0 toolbox.

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management

Leadership. In Three Words.

You can boil the keys to leadership down to three words.  Leaders get the behaviors they exhibit, expect and tolerate.

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