You've Got To Earn It

"A lot of people say 'I don't have time to network,' " Dalton says. " 'I don't have time to plan.' Well, I'm telling you: that's why in-plants close."

Homework: It's Not Just For Kids

It's a maxim history teachers use to inspire students to open their books: You can't know where you're going, if you don't know where you've been. Similarly, an in-plant can't begin to justify a purchase if it doesn't know what kind of work it is doing now or what kind of work it expects to do with the machine it wants to buy.