Cedar Rock Consulting LLC, Ron Smith Growth in the Hard Places: About a week ago, I shared this photo of a small cedar tree growing stubbornly out of solid rock. It’s more than just a striking image to me. It’s a reminder of why I started Cedar Rock Consulting in ... Oct 17, 2025
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC The C-suite has spoken. What if your entire team were Subject Matter Experts? The 2025 edition of the Autodesk State of Design Make report makes one theme crystal clear: companies everywhere are struggling with a growing ski... Sep 22, 2025
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC, Ron Smith Reflection on Autodesk University 2025 Although the travel scene getting to Downtown Nashville from BNA on Monday was a ring of nightmares only Freddy Kruger could conjure up (if you flew in on Monday, you know what I mean!), Autodesk Univ... Sep 22, 2025
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC, Ron Smith Failure is an option We don’t often like to talk about failure. It feels uncomfortable, even a little embarrassing. But in my experience, failure has been one of the most powerful teachers in my career, and it continues t... Aug 28, 2025
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC, Ron Smith Be Inquisitive From the time I can remember, I’ve had an unshakable drive to learn. Not just to know something on the surface, but to understand it well enough to use it, adapt it, and share it. That drive, what I c... Aug 28, 2025
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC Burning Cash? At almost every SMB—and even at larger businesses I’ve consulted with—everyone wears multiple hats, especially senior staff and SMEs. We see it all the time: one person becomes the de facto expert for... Jul 15, 2025
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC When being the SME becomes the problem. When I was a young design engineer, I quickly became the go-to expert in AutoCAD and Mechanical Desktop—back before Inventor and Vault even hit the scene. I didn’t ask for that title. It came because ... Jun 18, 2025
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC Cedar Rock Consulting Takes Flight—Literally (Well, Sort Of) Cedar Rock Consulting is thrilled to announce the next phase in our evolution: Cedar Rock Air . That’s right—we’re acquiring a small fleet of Boeing 737s and preparing for takeoff. Why aviation? Becau... Jun 4, 2025
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC If you want the tree to grow, you've gotta water it! "I hire smart people—they can figure it out as they go." These were the words a CEO once told me when I tried to convince him to invest in formal training for his engineering team after he’d just spen... May 7, 2025
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