There are very few people that actually enjoy meetings. I have never heard anyone say, “I can’t wait for the meeting this afternoon” unless it’s followed by “I won’t have to eat at my desk.” Certainly, the people who are called to attend a meeting largely lack enthusiasm are energetic unless they, or their project,
In this episode of State of Readiness, we interview Carl Kirpes, responsible for Crude Oil Strategy & Analysis atMarathon Petroleum Corporation. Carl and I met some years ago at an annual conference of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers when he was just graduating from Iowa State University – and we have stayed in touch
The date is September 15, 2008. The crisis in subprime mortgages had been going on for a little over a year. It was triggered in the last half of 2006 when house prices began to fall as the housing bubble in the United States burst. This caused those who had taken NINJA (No Income, No Job, or Assets) loans to buy
The competitive advantage for businesses in the 20th Century was centered around the efforts related to process excellence – making the processes throughout a business as efficient and as effective as possible. And this was accomplished using a variety of disciplines including (but not limited to) Lean, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, and so on.
Welcome to Episode 20 of the Outliers Inn – “The Benjamin & Joe Show”. Topic: In this rare ‘hostly’ episode, Antlerboy finally gets a microphone that works, and he and JP decide that it’s about time they found out a bit more about each others’ live and, more importantly, Operational Excellence backgrounds. Two old farts reminiscing