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Team: On the eve of Memorial Day and not much more than a week from the 80th Anniversary of the beginning of Operation Overlord is a good time to reflect on the powerful gift we have been bestowed through the sacrifice of others. Specifically, the opportunity to effectively govern ourselves as free people. With that inheritance comes the compelling obligation to pass it on. Effective self-governance is not entertainment, or sport, or theater, and celebrity is not leadership. Representative democracy is tough work that demands curiosity, the respect for the rule-of-law, and citizens who can disagree agreeably on matters of policy knowing that they share a great many common concerns. Similarly, leaders of character understand their own accountability and the duty to others that comes with authority. As I see it, we owe future generations no less than the opportunity that has been given to us at great cost to so many. Keep pounding…W/r, 🦅🦅

It was great to join Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, officials from the TN Dept. of Economic & Community Development, and members of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation in Nashville earlier today. Automotive OEMs and their suppliers operate in 88 of Tennessee’s 95 counties—including Lawrence County! Quick facts: ➡️ Since 2018, auto suppliers have announced plans to invest more than $211+ million and create 475 new jobs in Lawrence County. ➡️ Today, local auto suppliers employ a combined 868 workers—and will employ well over 1,000 workers by 2026. ➡️ Since 2018, automotive OEMs and suppliers have created more than 4,000 jobs within a 60-mile radius of Lawrence County.

As #manufacturing continues to struggle to meet its #workforce needs, enterprising companies such as Freedman Seating Company are exploring non-traditional options to keep plants well-staffed and #production running. One such method is connecting with #clergy, who often have significant influence in the neighborhoods they serve. As IndustryWeek's Laura Putre writes, "In cities like #Chicago and #Cleveland, the manufacturing community is reaching out to clergy to help meet workforce needs, and feel it’s a model that others may want to replicate. #Manufacturers need workers, and people in underserved communities need jobs. Churches are a community hub where people come not just for worship but also to meet up with their neighbors and connect with services." https://lnkd.in/enedsZPW Manufacturing Works Brianna Schultz, MBA, SHRM-SCP Cleveland Clergy Coalition Manufacturing Renaissance #workforcedevelopment

Christians in your company may be silenced by the pressure of current DEI initiatives. Many initiatives overstep the mandates Christians must abide by. Some topics are below, but feel free to messsge for a partnership today. Consult with CIB to: •Guide DET teams tounderstand Christian biblical mandates •Assist in creating a Christian employee resource group •Collaborate with marketing teams to properly support Christian holidays properly

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The key is continuous learning aligned with high demand skills. Traditional Americans place a high emphasis on career convenience and "balance". The rest focus on what we used to focus on. Learning, growing, changing, evolving, becoming more, and being others focused.

The "Greatest Generation" moniker will always belong ONLY to those who fought, served and died fighting WW2's global war to save democracy and defeat Nazism, the world over—and then to help build America, post-war, into a global power. GenZers haven't had a chance yet to lead the nation—but would they if called into action? In #NewRules Media, Bradley Schurman explores how some aspects of today's economic, social and political climate are similar to those faced by GenZ's great grandparents, when they were in their formative years, too. Schurman's piece suggests these historical similarities of time and place may be shaping GenZ into a new generation uniquely suited to fight future battles for a better world. What do you think? Read and comment.

This right here speaks volumes!

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In what is now known as Juneteenth, on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrive in Galveston, Texas with news that the Civil War is over and slavery in the United States is abolished.  A mix of June and 19th, Juneteenth has become a day to commemorate the end of slavery in America. Despite the fact that President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was issued more than two years earlier on January 1, 1863, a lack of Union troops in the rebel state of Texas made the order difficult to enforce. Some historians blame the lapse in time on poor communication in that era, while others believe Texan slave-owners purposely withheld the information. Upon arrival and leading the Union soldiers, Major Gen. Gordon Granger announced General Order No. 3: "The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere." On that day, 250,000 enslaved people were freed, and despite the message to stay and work for their former owners, many left the state immediately and headed north or to nearby states in search of family members who had been taken to other regions during slavery. For many African Americans, June 19 is considered an independence day. Before 2021, nearly all 50 states recognized Juneteenth as a state holiday. On June 17, 2021, President Biden signed legislation officially declaring it a federal holiday.