I Thought I was Wrong Once…But I was Mistaken
I was in Barnes & Noble over the weekend and beheld a seemingly endless collection of business books. Whilst thumbing through them, I noticed a mantra that almost all of the ones I looked at had in common – it’s not necessary to be completely right all of the time. Later that evening, I was looking…
Risk Mitigation For Business Leaders
In the “legion,” you march or die… As business leaders, sometimes we march because we are driven by opportunity to accomplishment, and sometimes we are forced to march to thwart a threat. … But march we must. The media has devoted a lot of energy as of late fanning the flames that the economy is in…
Getting to the Corporate “Promised Land”…
Last October, I was at a manufacturing conference in Chicago during which I had the privilege of being invited to a dinner hosted by David Deutsch. And it was during this dinner that I was introduced to Ralph Keller “ who is the President of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME). Thank you, David. Ralph and…
Realizing the Value in Business Processes
I had a very busy May with speaking engagements at the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) NJ Due Diligence Conference followed by the ACG-NY Manufacturing & Logistics Conference and wrapping it up by delivering a paper on Operational Excellence at the Institute for Industrial Engineers (IIE) Annual Conference in Vancouver. The underlying theme of all of…
23-April-08: Vistage International Back to Orb: Rekindling the Bourndaries of the Flat World
Vistage International Back to Orb: Rekindling the Boundaries of the Flat World CoorsTek Clear Creek Valley Plant (Denver, CO) April 23, 2008 (8:30am – 4:30pm) XONITEK Corporation’s President, Joseph Paris, will be the Keynote Speaker for the Vistage International event being held in Denver, Colorado on April 23rd. Mr. Paris’s presentation, Back to Orb: Rekindling the Boundaries of the…
React, Analyze, Act
Every once in a while, a sense of unease comes over me as if I have become untethered and feeling adrift from what I know.Not to be confused with the near euphoria I feel when I embark on an adventure into some unknown, this feeling of being detached is somewhat cold and comes with it a…