As is my habit, I occasionally “google” my name (with XONITEK, so that I don’t get the Joseph Paris that is into hair) to see what might be out there. I get the expected links to the various articles I have written or events in which I have taken part, but occasionally I get surprised.For instance, I responded to a simple research request some time ago and I found this posting on Ronald Voets’ blog entitled “Nobodies are the new Somebodies (click here).
I guess you never know the impact of your first impression – so make it good.Paris is the Founder and Chairman of the XONITEK Group of Companies; an international management consultancy firm specializing in all disciplines related to Operational Excellence, the continuous and deliberate improvement of company performance AND the circumstances of those who work there – to pursue “Operational Excellence by Design” and not by coincidence. He is also the Founder of the Operational Excellence Society, with hundreds of members and several Chapters located around the world, as well as the Owner of the Operational Excellence Group on Linked-In, with over 25,000 members.For more information on Paris, please check his Linked-In Profile at: http://de.linkedin.com/in/josephparis
It is time for the top leadership in organizations of all sizes to recognize that an ad-hoc approach to managing e-mail is highly inefficient and an enormous drag on human resources. E-mail management: the prioritization, planning and archiving of e-mail should be systemized and standardized in every organization.
For students in school, it’s graduation time. Many young students are graduating from one grade to the next and still others are graduating from their high school and taking the next big step on their life’s journey into adulthood. Of these, some will go directly into the job market; some will join the armed services;…
XONITEK’s Joseph Paris reviews Jim Bowie’s book Lean Acres & continued media coverage of the Operational Excellence Society. Published in Lean Management Journal in the November 2012 issue. Download PDF
It seems that at every Conference, Symposium, or other gathering of higher-learning and thought-leaders – where the topic is Lean Six-Sigma – many of the attendees, and almost all of the speakers, glorify and hold with the highest veneration the supposedly unmatched performance and prowess of Japanese companies and their management. Enshrined as proof-positive in…
Communication, quite simply, is the act of transferring information from a source to a destination. And those who lead – as well as those who aspire to lead – must recognize and understand the importance of communication, as well as gain a command of the skills to communicate effectively. The variety of the “envelopes” –…
For all our American friends, The Operational Excellence Society invites you to join us on January 29 for the second in a series of four weekly sessions of the State of Readiness Online Masterclass delivered live, by Joseph Paris. This live MasterClass will run from 11:00 to 13:30 (ET) on four consecutive Mondays. Each session…