ByJoseph F. Paris, Jr.
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“Leadership and Challenges on the Brain” by XONITEK’s Joseph Paris & continued media coverage of the Operational Excellence Society. Published in Lean Management Journal in the October 2012 issue.
The art of debate has devolved. No longer is it used as a tool of discovery, understanding, reconciliation, and progress. Today, it is a tool used to beat one another into submission – with the wholesale surrender of the beliefs and values held by one party over the other being the goal. What’s worse, the…
There is a saying, rather a curse; “May you live in interesting times”. It is a curse because interesting times are times that are full of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity; interesting times are VUCA times; disruptive, chaotic, and transformative. Whereas life in uninteresting times is predicable, rote, even boring. We are living in interesting…
ByHBR.org
While it’s no new revelation that corporate transformations still have a miserable success rate, even though scholars and consultants have significantly improved our understanding of how they work… HBR dives deeper into this problem and starts with reaffirming the fact, by revealing the latest study findings, which consistently report that about three-quarters of change efforts flop – either…
The Canadian Division of a global food manufacturer saved 28 million dollars in eight months, and saved several plants from closing, despite their high cost of production in an underutilized manufacturing system. It all began when the senior management stopped resisting what the workforce had to say. They returned to zero and started to listen….
ByHBR.org
The latest word from Harvard Business Review in regard to up-keeping organizational performance, has much to do with how to stay relevant in today’s ever-changing technological atmosphere. As opposed to having your employees learn a set of skills and then being “prepared” for their careers ahead, it’s more about getting them to keep learning over…
In William Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” (usually referred to simply as “Hamlet”), the main character, Hamlet, uses the phrase “undiscovered country” to refer to what lies beyond the grave – the afterlife – and our lack of knowledge of it, and our fear of it. As it is with death, so…
