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The Operational Excellence Manifesto
-“Operational Excellence is a state of readiness that is attained as the efforts throughout the organization reach a state of…
Lean Six Sigma – Reality or a Myth?
-“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth, persistent,…
CEO’s and their Sausages – Learn to Love them Like They Do.
-It’s been another week, much like the many other weeks for me. In addition to running a couple of companies,…
8.5 “Must Know” Career Tips & Tricks (v.Done)
-I have been an entrepreneur and in business – nonstop – since 1985. And over the course of those 30-plus…
Recent Posts
The Employee Vs. the Organization
-Sounds like some sort of a media driven grudge match between two heavyweight prize fighters? It is – based in large…
You are Unique, but not Special
-In my article, “Build Organizational Capacity and Capability – For Free”, I listed several root-causes for training and education programs…
The Immeasurable value of Intellectual Capital
-Your most valuable business asset may not be the raw materials, cash reserves, or even the technology found within your…
The way for reaching the Strategic Capability that empowers your business
-The increasing complexity and dynamism that the markets have today, but especially those where organizations operate using Information and Communication…
Thought Food
Men still pick “blue” jobs and women “pink” jobs
-The Economist poses the question: Does it matter that the labour market is so sex-segregated? To formulate an answer, it…
What’s an Algorithm?
-What is an algorithm? It is a method of solving problems both big and small. Though computers run algorithms constantly, humans…
Can We Really Test People for Potential?
-MIT Means that we need a more nuanced approach to predicting job performance. For all the promise new predictability techniques hold,…
eNewsletters
Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – January 2019
-January 2019 Monthly Musing By now, most of us have made and broken our “New…
Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – December 2018
-A Year in Review December 2018 Message from the Founder As we complete another circuit around the sun,…
Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – November 2018
-Issue: 2018-11 November 2018 Message from the Founder “People don’t notice whether it’s winter or…