Podcast: The Need for Lean Six Sigma in the Public Sector
Joseph Paris, Chairman of XONITEK will address the need for Lean Six Sigma in the public sector.

Joseph Paris, Chairman of XONITEK will address the need for Lean Six Sigma in the public sector.

Give a listen… My guest today is Larry Long Jr Larry Long Jr is the Founder and CEO of LLJR Enterprises, which focuses on sales motivation, inspiration, training & coaching. He is the host of the ‘Midweek Midday Motivational Minute’ and Author of JOLT! (*released May 19th). As a former college athlete (Go Terps! He…

Summary. The pursuit of individual productivity is healthy and worthwhile. However, unless you work independently outside of an organization, the benefits of most “tricks” will be limited. To make a real impact on performance, you have to work at the system level. The author recommends four ways to improve productivity and efficiency by making changes…

Any company worth its salt should be aware of the possibility that their current process for evaluating the work of people is increasingly out of step with their main objectives. This is precisely why Deloitte is one such company that’s redesigning their performance management system. They are dead set on developing something squarely focused on fueling performance…

Western firms are in the process of reconsidering their global footprints. For the past few decades, Western companies have been employing offshoring strategies. These processes saw companies making huge savings financially by moving work and jobs to other countries where wages were significantly lower. This has proven extremely effective, until now. The manufacturing game is…

Welcome to the official “coming-out party” of the new Operational Excellence Society. The past few years have been an interesting and exciting journey worthy of any adventure novel, except this one has been very real. As with every adventure, the path has been full of twists and turns. There have been many false starts and…
Finnish Railways ran with steam power until the late 1960s. The cockpit of the locomotive offered a workplace for two: the engine driver and the shovel man. The shovel man’s duty was to continuously shovel coal to the red-hot mouth of the furnace to keep the engine steaming. The century-long idyll of the two man…