How to Make New Hires Want to Stay, Revisiting Rare-Earth Mineral Restrictions: IndustryWeek's Weekly Reads

Be it the need for skilled workers or growing a leadership pipeline, talent management attracted significant attention from our IndustryWeek manufacturing community over the past week. Our top content over the past seven days are: 

The US Needs Workers. Germany's Apprenticeship Model Can Help: Reshoring will fail without a skilled workforce pipeline.

China’s Threat to Ban Critical Mineral Exports Is Not a Bluff: Rare-earth mineral restrictions are a very real option that the US should be actively preparing for.

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.

Eight Onboarding Do's and Don'ts for Manufacturers: Many companies fail to deliver a solid program that makes new hires want to stay.

Cleveland-Cliffs, German Firm Commit to Transformers Projects in West Virginia, Georgia: The companies’ projects are expected to create more than 700 jobs combined.

CEOs Need a Game Plan as US Elections Approach: Amid uncertainty in Trump vs. Harris and the upcoming Congressional elections, strategic paths forward for business are becoming clear.

Boeing Workers Vote to Authorize Strike: More than 32,000 machinists in Seattle could strike if negotiations break down.

Treating Customers Right (Ritz-Carlton Edition): Aircraft manufacturer Cirrus takes its customer experience cues from the hospitality industry.

Generation Now Leadership: Climbing the Ladder at Sandvik Coromant: Describing himself as “homegrown talent,” Brad Connally learned everything he knows about manufacturing from within the Sandvik Coromant grind department.

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.

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