Is Breakthrough a Dirty Word?
The history of fuel economy standards in the US automobile industry is an excellent example of typical resistance to Breakthrough. It portrays how yesterday’s environmental obstruction is today’s common sense.
Aligning Personal Brand with Corporate Brand
Increasingly, successful companies are beginning to recognize that good brand relationships with their employees are more important than good brand relationships with their customers. They understand that employees should be happy first in order to make the customers happy and that corporate brand loyalty starts with employee’s engagement. This can be realized by aligning the…
Lean Management Journal – “Employee Consideration is Key” by Joseph Paris
“Employee Consideration is Key” by Joseph Paris & Continued Support of the Operational Excellence Society – Published in Lean Management Journal in March 2012. Download PDF
Considering Only a Single Perspective Limits Your Point of View to One
We all look at the world from one perspective – our own. The perspectives we hold are born out of the circumstances of our upbringing and further developed by the experiences we gain during our lives. As such, one would expect that the perspective of some who have experienced much in their lives will be wider than…
Understanding Investor Due Diligence
The investor due diligence process has evolved with the growth of the hedge fund industry. What was once a short and rather perfunctory process has grown into one which today is highly quantitative and detailed. While there is no one-size-fits-all formula for investors, one certainty is that managers who understand the components of the due…
Energy Flows Where the Attention Goes
What Performance, Relationship, Innovation and Values have in common is that each is an arena for enhancing, focusing, or suppressing peoples’ energy. It follows that the projects with the most available energy are far more likely to succeed. Good ideas and the force of will are not enough.
