> Retain sufficient in-house production manufacturing that it is possible for future engineers to acquire the skills needed to develop new products, without which all businesses will fail. Even the work that is out-sourced requires internal expertise to write the specifications.

Damn, that really reminds me of a previous company I worked for, that wanted to replace important core internal libraries with open source libraries. My argument was always that we should always have in-house knowledge of the core technologies. I think a lot of companies fail to think long-term.

> Listen more to your own employees about how to save cost than to any outside business consultants who have never run a factory producing your kind of product. In any event, if the advice they offer changes every year, it cannot possibly be correct.

This one is the difference between management-driven company and engineers-driven company.