ByJoseph F. Paris, Jr.
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“Servants to the Cause” by XONITEK’s Joseph Paris & continued media coverage of the Operational Excellence Society. Published in Lean Management Journal in the September 2012 issue.
Topic: What is a leader and what does leadership mean? In the continuing adventures of JP and Antlerboy, we explore the meaning and the practicalities. We fluff a joke about the perfect leader accidentally being defined as a despotic dictator, and tap a rich vein with memories of leadership lessons from high school sports coaches. And…
While the days of old-fashioned, autocratic imperial CEOs have long gone, a new and much less exuberant authority figure has emerged within companies: the imperial CFO (Chief Financial Officer). These modern day “co-pilots” – as the only corporate officers other than the boss who are able to monitor every corner of an organisation – now play a growing role…
ByHBR.org
As any person in leadership will tell you, they believe that in order to stay competitive, their organizations must be continuously learning and improving on a daily basis. However, even those companies esteemed for their commitment to continuous improvement (Toyota for example), are finding it difficult to practice what they preach. HBR examines in detail, why organizations don’t learn…..
The effects of the global pandemic have been transformative on a scale and in a way not seen in most people’s lifetimes. Perhaps the most dramatic transformation is how quickly society, as a whole, has moved from engaging in close proximity to one another to being more distant; heavily relying on telephony and digitalization in…
I hear all too often from professionals in Continuous Improvement how “Senior Leadership does not give me the support I need”. Some go further by making the claim that “Senior Leadership just doesn’t understand”. And some go further still and make the suggesting there is a conscious, if not curious, effort by senior leaders to…
I love the smell of machine oil. I love to hear the clanging and clanking of machinery in operation. I love the banging when one machine hammers away at a piece of metal to form it into something new or the high-pitched “whir” of a loom or spinner in operation. And I love the way huge apparatus groan…
