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“Stealth” Mentorship
-I would find it hard to believe that any successful person achieved that success without having at least one mentor…
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,…
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,…
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
Operational Excellence – A Personal Case Study
-I write often about Operational Excellence. How we live in a world of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA). How…
The Simplicity of Lean
-This is an except from Chapter-1, Introduction from my book, “The Simplicity of Lean”. Lean means many things to many…
The sad reality of “quality” today: How innovation and growth creates waste and inefficiencies
-In the late 1970s, “quality” began to evolve from its historically “Neanderthal” passive inspection approach to its current “Cro-Magnon,” more…
Artificial Intelligence; The Next “Undiscovered Country”
-In William Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” (usually referred to simply as “Hamlet”), the main character, Hamlet,…
Thought Food
How can risk foresight lead to AI insight?
-EY poses the relevant question in this thought-provoking article: When it can take only one mistake — or a perception…
The Innovation Commitments
-McKinsey puts it simple in this article, by stating that the ability to develop, deliver, and scale new products, services,…
The Business Case for Working with Your Toughest Critics
-As a “corporate suit” (his words) and former VP of sustainability at McDonald’s, Bob Langert works with companies and their…
eNewsletters
Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – October 2019
-October 2019 Monthly Musing This is a generalization, but the real reason why most engineers rarely make good business people…
Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – September 2019
-September 2019 Monthly Musing I have recently come across several missives that place various management methodologies on an unassailable pedestal…
Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – August 2019
-August 2019 Monthly Musing We are in the “Dog Days of Summer”, the period between early July and early September. …