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employee training, Leadership, senior employees, senior workers, veteran employees

Honing Your Leadership Skills as an Operations Manager

March 20, 2023

As an operations manager, building and honing your leadership skills is a critical part of your job responsibilities. The better your leadership skills, the better the workers under your command will respond to you–and the better the working environment you will create. (more…)

energy infrastructure, industry, Insider, trending

When Atlas Shrugs Part 2: The Industrial Complex Strikes Back in Catch 2022

Dan Duszynski

September 6, 2022

As a refugee from communism herself, Ayn Rand saw the disastrous consequences of the global socialist mindset in action, and the degeneration it can cause in a free market republic, way back in the 1930s. Atlas Shrugged is her prophetic blueprint of the inevitable, logical consequences of illogical socialist…

energy, future of mining industry, Insider

Is Atlas Shrugging in 2022? The US Industrial Complex Under Fire: Part 1

Dan Duszynski

August 30, 2022

Ayn Rand’s landmark novel, Atlas Shrugged is a favorite with philosophers and libertarians alike. But at 1,168 pages Rand’s thesis/manifesto/novel is perhaps not so fondly recalled by those who found it on the required reading list. Engineers, plant managers, and especially heavy industry CEOs enduring turbulent 2022 just might…

Engineering, Industrial Revolution, Insider

When Your Kid Just May Be an Engineer!

Dan Duszynski

August 8, 2022

Great Engineering Toys of the Industrial Revolution at Resource Erectors And we’re not talking about Choo-choo Charlie and his Lionels here. So far in our romp through the history of the Industrial Revolution, we’ve spotlighted the great innovations of engineering such as the steam engine, the precursor to the…

Engineering, engineering professionals, Engineers, Industrial Revolution, Insider

Driving the Industrial Revolution: Engineering that changed the world

Dan Duszynski

August 3, 2022

An ongoing series by the heavy industry watchers at Resource Erectors. In our recent article here at Resource Erectors, we focused on two of the unsung Engineering Heroes of the Industrial Revolution. Now it’s time to take a look at two machine innovations that kickstarted the Industrial Revolution using…

Engineering, Industrial Revolution, Insider, Mining

Engineering Heroes of the Industrial Revolution

Dan Duszynski

July 29, 2022

Does Elon Musk Belong on Interesting Engineering’s The 20+ Greatest Engineers of All Time list? We had an enjoyable time here at Resource Erectors, scrolling through this impressive list of engineering Hall of Famers at InterestingEngineering. But from the industrial history point of view, we’d do a bit of…

employee training, Human Resources, Leadership, Mining, Mining Jobs, Recruitment, veteran employees

5 Reasons to Hire Older Workers in the Mining Industry

Dan Duszynski

December 28, 2020

The mining industry has a serious shortage of employees in their 40’s and 50’s. In many cases, these individuals are not being hired and often are overlooked in an effort to make room for younger employees. (more…)

future of mining industry, Jobs, Mining, Mining Industry, mining industry news, trending news

Mining Jobs Take Priority Over Traditional Politics in the US Iron Belt

Dan Duszynski

September 16, 2020

6 mayors in Northern Minnesota, a state in the heart of the US Iron Belt, have broken the long-standing tradition of their fathers and grandfathers by abandoning the Democrats and the Biden presidential campaign. As the Democrats rush farther and farther to the left, mayors, traditional Democrat communities, and industry…