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SuperFlash Announces Launch of subsidiary LaserCore™
SuperFlash LLC, a leader in compressed gas safety and management announced the launch of their new subsidiary LaserCore
SuperFlash CEO Announced as a winner in 2020 Smart 50 Awards
SuperFlash CEO Announced as a winner in 2020 Smart 50 Awards
Is Your Disinfectant Destroying Your Oxygen / Fuel Gas Equipment?
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Information Technology and the Pandemic
By Dave Marquard, WEMCO Tech Chair “If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.” ----- ALBERT EINSTEIN, DECEMBER 19,1917 Much has changed over the past century since Einstein made this observation. But one fact has not changed: how well you define a problem determines how well you solve it. I have had the distinct honor and privilege of writing this column for several years now and none of them have been more important to me than this one. This is because none of us have ever faced a personal and business crisis in our lifetimes like COVID-19. I was a cop in Ohio before I started my businesses and I thought I had seen everything too horrible to mention. But this disease is different. It has touched the lives and businesses of everyone on this planet in a way that challenges and frightens on a scale I never imagined possible. So how do we best manage our welding businesses in the COVID-19 era? It’s tricky because the virus is new and we have to make decisions in such a potentially lethal environment. Using today’s Information
This Too Won't Pass
By Dave Marquard March 20, 2020 “We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.”--- Mark Twain Some things don’t change. Mark Twain’s sense of humor causes laughter today just as it did 140 years ago. Even today he is often lauded as the greatest humorist in American history. I am sure he would have had a funny take on our modern welding technology if he were alive today. Reputations have a way of sticking through the ages. I can imagine the type of humor Twain might have written had he known about robotic welding or additive manufacturing, for example. The jolt of cataclysmic historical events always passes and we move on from them. But we remember a lot about them. All WEMCO members remember 9/11 and where they were and how they heard about it. All WEMCO members remember Columbine. The events passed and we recovered but the impact and change they caused altered our way of life in a permanent way. When was the last time any of us did not have to go through security at an airport? When was the last time we felt schools were completely safe for our children? The events passed. The impact and fallout from them lingers and stays with us. Now we are faced with another cataclysmic event that is changing our lives: the arrival of the Coronavirus. This too won’t pass because it has changed us as much as 9/11 did. Social distancing, hand sanitation, look
How to Prevent Personal Obsolescence
Here are three simple actions you can take to help prevent your own “personal obsolescence.” Warning: Personal obsolescence in a leader / manager can manifest itself in organizational underperformance, less than optimal personal compensation, and even unemployment. EMBRACE YOUR INDUSTRY & MARKET: More than 2,500 years ago the great Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu (544 BC to 496 BC) wisely observed: “If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.” To modify this ancient axiom a little, “You need not fear a hundred salary reviews, decisions, or market / industry changes, if you know the industry and the market.” Having worked a dozen years for a large conglomerate before founding my own companies, I witnessed a common mistake by new division executives who often believed they didn’t need to put in the considerable extra time required to learn the industry, market, and or even their products. This mistake was most often rooted in the erroneous belief that their highly developed “soft” skills would win the day for them. Soft skills, which include people skills, are important. However, it is the preponderance of a combination of “hard” with “soft” skills that will make your organization and you successful. If you don’t take the time & effort to learn them, your subordinates, peers, and superio
SuperFlash Compressed Gas Equipment Acquires Andonian Cryogenic Assets
SuperFlash Compressed Gas Equipment, LLC, Westlake, Ohio and Neustadt-Wied, Germany announce the acquisition of certain assets from Andonian Cryogenics, New Bedford
