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globalEDGE Business Beat with guest Ray Tadgerson

Ray Tadgerson Shares His View Of The Inside Story Of The Keep GM Movement In Lansing

Speaker: Ray Tadgerson, Tadgerson Consulting

Air Date: September 15, 2016

Tadgerson who served as the project director of the Blue Ribbon Committee to retain GM in Lansing, Michigan. He is also the former CEO and President of C2AE. Tadgerson together with David Hollister, David Closs, and Tomas Hult recently released the book Second Shift: The Inside Story of the Keep GM Movement. This book – and the accompanying film documentary (Second Shift: From Crisis to Collaboration) – discusses a six-dimensional collaborative problem-solving approach called the Second Shift Model that can apply to any business or community, large or small, to maintain the communities global competitiveness. In this segment, Hult and Tadgerson dialogue about the learning experience other communities can take from Lansing’s experience with GM, the value to Lansing of having two of the newest GM plants in town, and the key takeaways for communities and multinational corporations.

Ray Tadgerson Talks About Second Shift, GM, And Lansing

Speaker: Ray Tadgerson, Tadgerson Consulting

Air Date: September 15, 2016

Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with Ray Tadgerson who served as the project director of the Blue Ribbon Committee to retain GM in Lansing, Michigan. He is also the former CEO and President of C2AE. Tadgerson together with David Hollister, David Closs, and Tomas Hult recently released the book Second Shift: The Inside Story of the Keep GM Movement. This book – and the accompanying film documentary (Second Shift: From Crisis to Collaboration) – discusses a six-dimensional collaborative problem-solving approach called the Second Shift Model that can apply to any business or community, large or small, to maintain the communities global competitiveness. In this segment, Hult and Tadgerson dialogue about the background of the Second Shift project, the most important component of the Second Shift Model, and the similarity between the book and the film documentary.

Building The Infrastructure In Lansing

Speaker: Ray Tadgerson, Tadgerson Consulting

Air Date: June 02, 2016

Hosted by Tomas Hult, this interview segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat focuses on Ray Tadgerson’s involvement for several decades in building the infrastructure in the Greater Lansing area. Ray Tadgerson is President and CEO of Tadgerson Consulting, and former President and CEO of C2AE, known then as Capital Consultants. Ray provides a brief history of his involvement in infrastructure for the Lansing region as an engineer and later as CEO of Capital Consultants - now known as C2AE. Ray talks about his most significant infrastructure projects in the region, and what keeps him busy these days.