“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.
Although fraught with great peril, our intrepid hosts open-up the podcast to call-ins. What can go wrong? Well, everything can go wrong. But in spite of the incredible odds, our first call-in episode went rather well. So well, in fact, that the call-in format will be our new standard format for the show. In this…
GM has been under heavy pressure for some time now. Their problems began small, with just 500 of their latest full-size pickups being recalled because of a minor problem with airbags. But GM’s woes escalated after admitting that it waited a decade to act on an ignition-switch problem linked to at least 13 deaths, in addition to…
A Reuters analysis has found that the number of people working to implement “Obamacare” has reached the tens of thousands. Call them the Obama-army, if you will. Indeed, State offices that will run insurance exchanges are hiring tens of thousands, either on staff or through outsourcing firms. And futhermore, federal agencies that are key to implementing…
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Phil Plait was on a Hubble Space Telescope team of astronomers who thought they may have captured the first direct photo of an exoplanet ever taken. But did the evidence actually support that? Follow along as Plait shows how science progresses — through a robust amount of making and correcting errors. “The price of doing…
Defining the example first, then leading by example As we go through life, we end up collecting a bunch of “truths” or mantras that subconsciously form the way we see the world. This starts in the home we grow up in, where we are subjected to certain rules and norms. “Money doesn’t grow on trees”,…
Like many consultants, I travel quite a bit and spend a fair bit of time at airports as a result. And since I live in Germany and my clients are (mostly) in Europe and in the States, my most popular route (once a month on average) is flying United Airlines between Frankfurt (FRA) and Newark…
