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Getting Organized and Finding Time

A major part of the preparation should be learning as much as possible about the plant or company that you are going to visit before the actual visit. This will require research to find out if any specific issues exist. The research should include any issues that have been created for your organization as a result of the behavior of the supplier. The time frame that would be covered by the research could be several years to get enough data to create a healthy discussion and make sure the incident is not an isolated occasion. Remember, the idea is to help the supplier get better and not to get into an argument about what may be trivial issues. Reviewing any problems that have been encountered with the supplier and the solutions that were offered provides a base for a good discussion later on the day of the visit. [Pg.128]

All this deadly experimentation however may not have been for naught. Chinese alchemists did find some mercury compounds that were excellent for getting rid of fleas and lice (soap was still a luxury in those times), and other scholars credit the richness of Chinese cuisine to the Taoist habit of experimentally eating all sorts of organic and inorganic substances. Another outcome may have been the discovery of anesthetics and other items of their tremendous pharmacopoeia. According to Edwin Reischauer and John Fairbank ... [Pg.45]

Communications—always keep people informed of what is going on within their organization. They like to feel that they can be trusted with information when it becomes available. Make your expectations clear and follow the old adage, Say what you mean and mean what you say. Make time available to meet with people and make that time unhurried and without interruption. Actively listen to what they say to you. Get to know the people you are trying to motivate and find out what their goals and aspirations really are. [Pg.58]

The sentence preceding and leading into sentence 3 speaks of the very brief time—a month— that the organizers of the fair had to find a new site and get information out. Choices b and d are incorrect because they could not have been known about at the time the fair was moved. Choice c is incorrect because there is no indication in the passage that New York officials tried to stop the fair. [Pg.150]

Your first real product will usually be made in the laboratory. That is the place to develop the recipe for full scale production. Experimenting in the lab takes much less time and is much cheaper than on a full scale. The laboratory techniques used in product development are no different from those used in chemical research and education. However, there are differences in the way you need to organize experiments. In research and education, you can choose freely which variables you want to investigate. This is not so in product development. In product development you must try to get a feeling for the effect of all important variables. If you miss any, there is a large chance that competitors will find your weak spot. However, you must be clever if you want to investigate everything with limited means and a limited amount of time. [Pg.107]

It takes two for an interview. The interviewed person spends some time and effort she must get something back out of the interview. Otherwise you can forget any next meeting. Try to find out who the person is you are to interview you must know her name and position in the company or organization where she is working. You must try to find out points where you might help each other (Figure N4-9). [Pg.254]


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