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  • The High Cost of Acting Without Planning: Why Communication and Preparation Are Cornerstones of Success
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    The High Cost of Acting Without Planning: Why Communication and Preparation Are Cornerstones of Success

    ByJoseph Paris September 22, 2025September 29, 2025

    We often talk about the need for speed, but speed without direction is chaos.  It is far better to achieve and increase velocity; which is speed with a vector – a direction, purpose. For those invested in Lean principles, PDCA starts with “Plan”, but all too often and to their risking doom, organizations start with…

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  • From Chaos to Cohesion: What Youth Soccer Teaches Us About Building High-Performance Business Teams
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    From Chaos to Cohesion: What Youth Soccer Teaches Us About Building High-Performance Business Teams

    ByJoseph Paris July 5, 2025July 30, 2025

    Spend five minutes watching a group of young children play soccer, and you will likely be entertained by the spectacle.  There’s enthusiasm, laughter, a lot of movement, and almost no structure.  Eleven kids (though it could be seven, or five, or however many happen to be on the field) swarm the ball like bees to…

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  • The Evolution of Continuous Improvement and Operational Excellence: From Tools to People
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    The Evolution of Continuous Improvement and Operational Excellence: From Tools to People

    ByJoseph Paris April 21, 2025July 30, 2025

    I was recently the Chairperson at the 10th Annual Global Process Improvement and Operational Excellence Summit in Amsterdam this past March.  In my opinion, it is one of the best summits on the subject that exist; it and it is counterpart in Orlando held annually in the Fall. I have been the Chairman of both…

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  • Best Practices For Becoming a High-Performance Organization
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    Best Practices For Becoming a High-Performance Organization

    ByJoseph Paris December 8, 2024July 30, 2025

    I started XONITEK in August of 1985 in Endicott, New York.  I still own its latest incarnation, now located in Sheridan, Wyoming.  Having owned my own businesses for the last 40 years makes me uniquely unemployable.  Perhaps that could change given the right circumstances (whatever those might be). Since the very beginning, the purpose of…

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  • The need for both KPIs and OKRs
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    The need for both KPIs and OKRs

    ByJoseph Paris January 27, 2024July 30, 2025

    Headline: “Business Metrics Gone Awry: The Dark Side of Relying Solely on KPIs” Subheading: “Corporate Missteps Highlight the Pitfalls of Blindly Chasing Key Performance Indicators” We read about it all the time; in a shocking turn of events, the business world is abuzz with meteoric fall of some company and its CEO, its CFO, or…

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