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![How to Keep Your ‘A’ Players]()
It’s a nightmare scenario for any business: A star employee suddenly decides to jump ship for the competition. Out the door goes years of experience, in-depth knowledge of sales and marketing plans, and even a good number of hard-won customer connections.
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![SMU: Many Mystified by Steel Price Decline]()
If you are mystified by today’s steel prices, you are not alone.
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![The Ins and Outs of Deducting Business Losses]()
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act eliminated most personal deductions for casualty losses, but options remain for service center operators.
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![Reisman: Buyers Have a Little More Pull in 2019]()
The past year was undeniably a great year for steel mills, and mostly a pretty good one for service centers. The Section 232 tariffs led to an immediate spike in pricing, and domestic mills benefited from the decline in imports. With some exceptions, service centers tagged along for the ride.
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![Are Service Centers Near the Point of Capitulation? Service centers carry some influence when it comes to steel prices]()
Steel Market Update research shows service centers carry some influence when it comes to the direction of steel prices.
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![The State of Manufacturing Today ... and Tomorrow]()
Manufacturing is growing in the United States. It’s just not the traditional form of manufacturing that’s on the rise.
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![Morrison: Long Recovery Still Has Room to Grow]()
At last month’s CRU North American Steel Conference, the principal economist for CRU Group asked, and answered, the question: Is a recession imminent?
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![Lessons Learned in the Army: Develop Leaders Three Levels Down]()
The real strength of an organization is three to four levels from the top. Junior leaders in any organization make an organization great or lead to its eventual downfall.
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![Red Metals Association Launches Ed Program]()
The Copper and Brass Servicenter Association has rolled out CBSA University, an effort to upgrade its educational offerings to its member companies, and non-members.
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![When Behavior-Based Safety Isn’t Enough Why BBS lacks effectiveness and what you can do instead]()
Drawing from personal experience implementing Behavior-Based Safety programs across organizations with thousands of employees, we have identified three key areas where BBS lacks effectiveness.
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