Welcome to the IndustryWeek Weekly Reads for the third week of July. In this ongoing feature, we share the top content on IndustryWeek.com from the past seven days. Leadership, cybercrime and manufacturing innovation led as attention-getters this week, but a wide variety of topics found their way into the Top 10. Without further ado:
5 Leadership Attitudes That Can Kill a Company: All leaders make mistakes and need an ego check now and then. But these consistently bad practices can send you on the fast track to oblivion.
Cybercriminals Steal Data from 109 Million AT&T Customers: A double-whammy of third-party cybersecurity and human vulnerability.
How Do You Innovate When You’re Small, 96 Years Old and Make One Basic Thing? A family manufacturer meets the moment many times.
Manufacturers See Early AI Gains in 3 Areas: Automotive and gigafactory use cases center on safety, quality and efficiency.
DOE Announces $1.7 Billion to Retrofit Historical Auto Facilities for EV Manufacturing: Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy John Podesta says the awards are "tackling the existential threat of climate change by cutting pollution from the transportation sector.”
Microgrids Could Deliver a Short-Term Fix for America's Broken Energy System: A nationwide Smart Grid is at least a decade away.
What Toyota Looks for in Future Leaders: Brett Wood, president and CEO of Toyota Material Handling North America, presents key characteristics of leaders during a keynote address at the IndustryWeek Operations Leadership Summit.
Reshoring Manufacturing: Pharma, Trucking, Plastics Insights (Production Pulse): Manufacturers have brought more than 1 million jobs back to the United States throughout the past four years.
IW U.S. 50 Best Manufacturers: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Takes Top Spot: A more diverse set of companies landed in IndustryWeek’s annual ranking of companies that manage their operations most efficiently with no one sector dominating results.
So That Happened: Get Those New Workers Trained! IndustryWeek editors look into those stories and the latest steel company purchase by Cleveland-Cliffs, attitudes on AI and XR and how automakers are spending federal EV dollars.
