Michael Randall:  

After a less than stellar academic performance in high school, I attended college part time, hung out, and raced sailboats on the great lakes for about six years while I tried to figure out what to do. Then I got serious and found a job as a designer for an automotive supplier. Became an engineer a few years later. In the past twenty years I have been a plant manager, quality manager, engineering manager and Lean Manufacturing manager. When the auto biz took a turn for the worst I moved into military aerospace and have been working on military aircraft programs (sounds more exciting than it really is, b...Expand for more