31/10/2026
Some of the best days in business are the ones where you ask a question, give the team some room, and the answer is waiting for you the next morning.
I had one of those days in aerospace manufacturing. A part wouldn’t come out square, and out by even one-thousandth of an inch meant it was no good. The team had checked every step. I didn’t dive in. I asked a few questions and left them to it.
The next day they’d found it: the machine bed was slightly out. One adjustment and it was sorted.
It’s a good reminder for any of us running a business around Ipswich and South East Queensland. Sometimes the most useful thing we can do is ask, then step back.
What’s something your team now handles that you used to do yourself?
That story is in my book, Improvise, Adapt, Succeed®, along with plenty more from my years in defence, aerospace and business.
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