“The most difficult staff to find for our manufacturing operations have been good QC people and good financial managers,” a British manager said recently during a round of beers at the local Blue Marlin. We were bemoaning the point that QC managers with draconian approaches to imposing quality processes and testing on production tend to drive away the good engineers, while QC managers that just want to fit in get nothing achieved.” Meanwhile, “We’ve had …

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