Best Practices For Becoming a High-Performance Organization

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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 the…
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From Pontius to Pilatus”, the IBR podcast – #7 Joseph Paris: “People want to belong – like in a relationship.”

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https://www.buzzsprout.com/2328296/episodes/15618466 In this episode, Joseph Paris dives deep into leadership and the pursuit of Business Excellence. He talks with Sebastian Huber about how it all started with a LinkedIn group that grew from 50 to 180,000 members and explores whether Excellence is an attitude or a goal. Paris highlights the importance of true emotions and the feeling of…
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The need for both KPIs and OKRs

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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 both. …
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Safety Comes Third: A Contrarian Approach to Prioritizing Workplace Values

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Several years ago I was at an Operational Excellence Conference here in Frankfurt.  As with most talks, the speaker started by introducing the company he worked for and what it did.  He then proceeded to list the companies values, of which there were five or so. The last value on the list was “Safety” to which…
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State of Readiness | Jesse DePriest; President of Jesse DePriest Consulting

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Hello and welcome to another edition of State of Readiness. I am your host, Joseph Paris.My guest today is Jesse DePriest, President of Jesse DePriest Consulting, LLC; Privately held consultancy specializing in Lean including; strategy development and deployment, leadership development, process design and analysis, process improvement, problem solving, teamwork. I have known Jesse for several years…
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