Daniel Mercer writes practical research and operations guides for Mercer Lane Press. His books cover structured genealogy case-solving, small-team maintenance planning, and frontline manufacturing supervision, including the transition from skilled operator or technician to leading shifts, managing former peers, giving feedback, and handling day-to-day people problems.
A practical small-team maintenance planning system that separates work capture, triage, planning, readiness, weekly commitment, execution, closeout, and review so supervisors can control backlog, prepare executable work, coordinate parts and production access, schedule against realistic labor capacity, and learn from schedule changes without building a large-company bureaucracy.
A practical case-solving system for difficult family-history research that turns repeated searching into a structured investigation: define one question, verify the evidence, trace provenance, build a timeline, preserve contradictions, expand names and jurisdictions, research associates, test competing hypotheses, correlate the evidence, and record a defensible conclusion.
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