JANUARY 2020
Guy Gruenberg - What’s Next? Discover New Opportunities, Uncover Your Problems, Create Options and Execute for Success!
- According to Gruenberg, there are three types of people. Those who make things happen, the kind of people that watch other people make things happen, and the people that don't know what's happening at all.
- Action plans help us get things done. An action plan is a very detailed and structured To-Do List. Unlike a daily to-do list, which categorizes prioritized items, an Action Plan has all the tasks related to the specific project listed in chronological order.
- He encourages strategic thinkers to look at the disruptions they see and consider what the impacts will be. For example, the projected growth of electronic vehicles will severely impact business and society: “If you're in the muffler business, the transmission business, the internal combustion engine business, you should be worried.”
- He then asked attendees to consider how the rumored switch by Costco to plastic pallets would impact the wood pallet industry.
- Look outside of the ordinary when thinking strategically, for example filling their labor needs by recruiting people from Puerto Rico. Other surprising ideas included considering buying an old fire truck to keep on-site in case of fire, and shutting off electrical power to the plant after hours.
Guy Gruenberg is President and Chief Strategic Officer of Rose Pallet
Joe Flood, Ray Gutierrez, Nick Korn and Rodney Wadel - Biomass Issues: Wood Weaste Residuals, Wooden Pallets, Animal Bedding, Waste & Recycling
- Ray Gutierrez of Commercial Lumber and Pallet Company commented that the fiber being generated at one of their plants is perfect for mulch, between the
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material being found as well as fines being collected in their dust collection system. One interesting note was that the soil amendment company paid for the installation of the dust collection system in order to secure the fiber supply, with Commercial paying them back with grindings over time.