Tim Hutzel

Tim Hutzel

Oxford Ohio USA

I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood in the 1950's where my father, "Pop", worked as a tool & die maker for GM. Almost all the fathers on my street were blue-collar workers who were role models for their kids and families. They were respected for their crafts and earned a good living. Sadly, now all that is gone. The flight of manufacturing to China and other countries has left us with lost crafts and skills, lost jobs, unemployment, lost work ethic, and more.

My background is Engineering, Manufacturing and Organization Development. I have found as Mike Hammer said, "The soft stuff is the hard stuff". In other words, designing products and how to make them is much easier and straight forward than designing organizations and helping the people within them learn how to work together and function harmoniously and effectively. There is the rub....to teach organizations how to achieve designing and manufacturing products while their employees work together effectively and harmoniously.