A rousing cheer fills the lunchroom.
Business is good.
My name is not in there, but I love those drawings more than anyone. It feels so good. By contrast, a year ago we had only bad news for the employees when we gathered in the back of the plant for our weekly open-book meeting. The Asian financial crisis and the downturn in the semiconductor industry had ravaged our major markets. At the time, the possibility of achieving our linear-shipping goal seemed so farfetched that some managers urged me to drop it.