Birdie Miller

Management

How a cabinetmaker invented a hinge

As cabinetmakers and designers, we are problem solvers; it comes with the territory, and it’s in our DNA. But how many times have you been moving along on a project, only to encounter an obstacle that requires some serious ingenuity and innovative thinking to overcome or improve? How many of those innovations/inventions have you created to solve those problems, only to leave them on the shelf to gather dust once the project is complete? Any one of those could be an opportunity.