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The Future is Now
Will technology experience
20,000 years of growth in the next century? Futurist
Ray Kurzweil thinks so.
Crash
Diets: The Cure for Overweight Companies?
Given the enormous costs of recruiting and training employees, it’s
surprising that so many companies are purging themselves so quickly of their
valuable talent resources.
How
Effective is Your Capture Strategy?
In the war for talent, you may
know how to wine and dine the talent you need. But as a manager, are you
able
to actually
consummate the deal?
Intelligence
Failure Costly to Employers
If
the syntax used in the employment game could be improved, employers would
save millions of hours—and
dollars.
Merger
Mania Hits the Sensor Industry
Sensor companies may lack
celebrity status, but they’re no less active than the highest profile
companies when it comes to shuffling the deck.
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By Bill Radin
Earlier
this year, Vishay’s acquisition of Sensortronics marked the end of an
era---and the loss of something special in our world.
As
Emory Farr handed over the keys to his company, a generational torch was
passed, and with it, the leadership qualities that are conspicuously absent
in today’s corporate culture.
To
Emory, terms like “honesty,” “loyalty” and “empowerment” were
more than a linguistic smokescreen. When Emory gave you his word, you could
take it to the bank. I know, because I filled more than a dozen of his top
managerial positions over the last 15 years, and his business handshake was
as rock-solid as any legal contract.
Like the greatest generation of which he was a part, Emory fought to
preserve an ideal and a way of life, and was unwavering in his determination
to protect his employees' jobs, promote people based on their actual merit,
and deliver high-quality products to his customers.
Now in semi-retirement, Emory still owns CEC Vibration Products, a small
division of Sensortronics he declined to sell. At the operations helm of CEC
is Mike Matsumoto, whom I placed with Emory back in 1987. Mike was offered
the GM slot at Sensortronics by the new owners, but he turned it down,
largely out of loyalty to Emory.
Sadly, the Age of Enron has largely replaced the Age of Emory, whose
business ethic played a substantial role in his company's success. To those
of us privileged to have worked with Emory, we wish him well, and hope one
day to see a revival of the principles of “Management by Character.”
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