This past December (2025) I had the opportunity to attend Thayer Leadership, thanks to one of my clients, Integra-Cast, a member of the Spartan Aerospace Group, and its CEO, John Buckridge. I am very thankful for being given the experience. It was an awesome training course and one I would highly recommend to anybody (or…
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…
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…
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…
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…
