A deep concern of mine is the lack of non-service jobs in the U.S. I’ve spent a good deal of time in the last year considering the role of postsecondary workforce development providers in helping to train a workforce for manufacturing jobs.

The CEO of Dow Chemical has written a new book called “Make it in America: The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy.”  I haven’t read the book, but I found his interview on NPR’s Morning Edition to be very interesting.  Basically, he says the U.S. lacks national-level policies and approaches to encourage domestic manufacturing, which China and Germany have used successfully to build thriving manufacturing sectors.

Rod Githens

Rod specializes in innovation, design, and strategy through his consulting work and as a professor at University of the Pacific.  He helps leaders get results through using innovation and creativity processes, strategy development and strategic planning, group facilitation and action planning, and program and initiative development.  More…