For you faithful readers of this newsletter, and by the way, there are around 1,000 of you that open these emails regularly, we are making deliberate progress.  However, we have spent the last three months reviewing in detail our inaugural projects, and, behind the scenes, there has been a lot of work to make sure everything is functioning smoothly.

Now, we have one request from you. Soon, you may receive a phone call or an email from one of our board members. They will be asking you to join the Light Green Machine Institute (LGMI) and become engaged in one of our projects or serve in some other capacity. We ask you to take their request seriously. 

Why should you consider joining LGMI and become active in one of our inaugural projects?

1. As a benefit to your employer, recognition for you. It may not be that one of the projects in its entirety will be of benefit to your employer, but it is likely some portion may be. Being a contributor to your employer’s success through this new portal can be good for your career.

2. Spinoff ideas that help you do your job better and more efficiently. Working with others on a project team can be a way to spawn new ideas for a problem you have been trying to solve. Such discussions may not necessarily provide specific ideas but may be the genesis of new ideas for you.

3. Interchange between operations focused members and supplier focused members can result in new ideas that benefit all— “a rising tide lifts all boats.”

4. Your next career move could be the result of participating in an LGMI project.

How do you overcome resistance from your employer?



1. LGMI’s work is on universal issues that every manufacturer experiences. LGMI is working on foundational issues, far from the commercial end of the business. These are issues of efficiency of production and economy of construction. Individual companies’ product performance and service advantages are not in our scope.

2. LGMI works with modern techniques in conducting its business. No or minimal travel with nearly all meetings as video conferences.

3. While open to all LGMI members, LGMI project committees are intended for project team members, and records of ideas and decisions are an open forum for members. 

Thank you very much for your participation.  

Of special note...

In a few months, we will be moving this column to the Light Green Machine Institute website. There is not much there right now, but you might as well get signed up and start thinking about moving over there. It is at www.lightgreenmachine.institute.