After a financial turnaround early in his tenure, Bob Weidner stays focused on growth customer needs in competitive landscape Weidner Bob Weidner got hooked on manufacturing in his early 30s as a product manager. "I remember sitting in a big combine in New Holland, Neb., looking around inside a cab, and it clicked that without metal and manufacturing a lot of life as we know it wouldn't exist," he recalls. Today, as CEO of the Metal Services Center Institute, Weidner spends much of his "think time" contemplating the needs that his members and their customers will have in the future—needs they don't even know they'll have. When he came to the organization in 2001, his… Read More