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    Meetings: As certain and as joyous as death and taxes

    ByJoseph Paris June 27, 2019January 6, 2020

    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,…

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    State of Readiness; Carl Kirpes, From Gridiron to Pipelines

    ByXONITEK June 11, 2019December 30, 2020

    In this episode of State of Readiness, we interview Carl Kirpes, responsible for Crude Oil Strategy & Analysis at Marathon 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…

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    The Antidote for VUCA is OODA

    ByJoseph Paris December 6, 2018January 6, 2020

    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…

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    State of Readiness; Inaugural Episode with Brent Gleeson, Navy SEAL

    ByXONITEK June 13, 2018February 22, 2021

    Welcome to this inaugural episode of “State of Readiness”, a podcast devoted to sharing knowledge of how companies can become high-performance organizations and hosted by Joseph Paris.  Our first guest is Brent Gleeson; a Navy SEAL combat veteran with multiple tours to Iraq and Africa.  Upon leaving SEAL Team 5, Brent turned his discipline and battlefield lessons…

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    The Recession is Dead – Long Live the Recession

    ByJoseph Paris February 4, 2018January 6, 2020

    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….

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