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Could this meeting have been an email? The phenomenon of “calendar creep,” where meetings completely take over your work days, is wasting time, energy and productivity — but you can take back control. Leadership expert Cindy Solomon shares her five tips for clearing up your schedule and getting your calendar to work for you, not against you.
Too many companies equate strategy with hitting financial goals. They underestimate the difficulty—and the value—of the real thing. The word “strategy” means an approach to dealing with a difficult challenge, especially that of competing with a clever opponent. To have a strategy is to have an approach to overcoming critical obstacles and difficulties. However, through many…
The Operational Excellence has noticed that business improvement projects follow a predictable pattern. The company initiates a program in an operational unit. Within a short time, it scores easy victories and realizes gains. This justifies deploying additional resources to continue the positive trend. But after the low-hanging fruit is gathered, the program often stalls and…
Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Outliers Inn Podcast! Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society, & Benjamin Taylor, Owner of RedQuadrant. Guest: Matt (Boom) Daniel Topic: This is the inaugural edition, so please forgive the roughness of it – we promise to get better over time! Pretty much just getting our feet wet, figuring…
“When you’re through changing, you’re through.” – Bruce Barton (Early 20th Century Advertising Executive) Ahh, consultants!—purveyors of ideas, concepts and theoretical models. As I am considered a member of this distinguished fraternity, I realize that at times we create more problems than solutions. Take change, for example. Most clients want projects completed quickly at the lowest cost possible….
Something is seriously wrong… The healthcare industry as a whole in the United States is corrupt, dysfunctional, ineffective, and inefficient. And regardless of “party affiliation”, everyone appears to share this opinion. The only real disagreement (and a heated disagreement at that) is what should be done about it, and whether what has been done to…
Today, only 40% of world leading executive business leaders around the globe are confident of their revenue growth prospects (Source: PWC). In today’s economic environment, many global companies must adapt to a new situation where: Supply chain risks are higher Competition within existing markets increases yet more The lean spheres widen to areas outside the…
