ByJoseph F. Paris, Jr.
Posted on - “Partyzanci transformacji”, published in the April 2011 issue of Eurologistics Magazine – in Polish.
“Guerilla Transformation” – Original article in English.
So, you are thinking about embarking upon a Continuous Improvement (CI) Journey at your company. Or, more than likely, you are going to be RE-embarking upon a CI Journey at your company. But where do you start? At the beginning, of course… “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao…
In 1996, my first assignment to South Africa for XONITEK was being hired by Macola-South Africa to train their personnel – and the personnel of their resellers – on how to implement Macola’s ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution. It was a very turbulent time in South Africa; apartheid had just ended, there was a new…
The concept of leaders and leadership continues to evolve in the modern world. Part of that evolution involves the change in who is eligible to be a leader. In looking at leadership opportunities for females, the evolution has been slow. In Rhodes book, entitled Women and Leadership (2017),[1] she looked at the history of women…
I wrote the first version of this article four years ago and have been updating it every year since. I have had a great many people remark to me that it has helped them a great deal (which is the point, I guess.) I have also had several people give me some new ideas and, of course,…
There are tens of thousands of books regarding management, leadership, and culture. They all boil down to a list of base principles that are key to running a sound business. Simple to understand, very hard to execute. We should beware to confuse simple with easy. In fact, most of the behaviors that make us healthy…
