The Economist reports on Finland’s role in the Euro Crisis: It has least to gain from a grand bargain to save the euro – and that could prove to become a big problem. As things currently stand around the Finn Red Line, Finland’s finance minister, Jutta Urpilainen, caused a stir when she said that her country…
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Magician Keith Barry could be thought of as a hacker of the human brain. He writes routines that exploit the brain’s bugs and loopholes, and offers a revealing look at the software between our ears. In this thought-provoking TED talk, he shows us how our brains can fool our bodies — in a trick that works via podcast…
“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. Download PDF
Joseph Heller wrote in his novel, Good as Gold, “The most advanced and penultimate stage of civilization is attained when chaos masquerades as order.” I’m pretty sure we’ve already arrived.
What separates an effective organization from an organization that just shifts from one management fad to another? Substance vs. Form. In a high-performance organization, one can never successfully sell the ‘soft stuff’, the latest management concepts, or the latest technology on their own merits. One has to make the connection to the financial bottom line. The…
There are many jobs that are demanding. Some are demanding physically, some are demanding emotionally and some are demanding intellectually – often a combination. Regardless of your profession, almost all of them have one thing in common – when you are done for the day, you are able to set aside your work and enjoy time thinking…
