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Author - Heinz Bloch
A Contrarian View: Making Silk Purses
By Heinz P. Bloch, P.E. As bubonic plague ravaged much of Europe, a wise man apparently shared a...
A Contrarian View: Standards, Sensors, Squirrels, Unintended...
By Heinz P. Bloch, P.E. Several months ago, I happened to look at API-618. In the process, I noted...
A Contrarian View: Rediscovering And Forgetting Lessons Learned
By Heinz P. Bloch, P.E. The term “integrally geared compressor” describes equipment consisting of a...
A Contrarian View: Not Grooming Your Successor is Poor Policy
By Heinz P. Bloch, P.E. The last 25 years or so have seen a shift in the way mid-level managers are...
Why Single-Sourcing is Bad
Responding to feedback from the field, our “Contrarian View” columnist explains why narrowing your...
A Contrarian View: What Being Proactive Really Means
By Heinz Bloch, P.E. A company I choose to call NTBO (“Not-To-Be-Offended”) will long remember a...
A Contrarian View: Manage Your Management Problems
By Heinz Bloch, P.E. “Manage” was the blunt advice I recently gave an audience of reliability...