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  • They are dumb
    Body of Knowledge Founders Desk

    They are dumb

    ByJoseph Paris August 8, 2021February 18, 2026

    I had a project where I was hired to try to help turn a company around.  The challenges faced existed across the entirety of the company.  In fact, there was no function of the company that was operating at an acceptable level.  This company was very sick. The owner of the company and I made…

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  • State of Readiness; Brent Gleeson; Navy SEAL and Author of “Taking Point” and “Embrace the Suck”
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    State of Readiness; Brent Gleeson; Navy SEAL and Author of “Taking Point” and “Embrace the Suck”

    ByXONITEK June 29, 2021June 29, 2021

    Today I invite back to “State of Readiness”, Brent Gleeson, a Navy SEAL combat veteran and serial entrepreneur. In addition to being a best-selling author of “Taking Point” and his new release, “Embrace the Suck“, Brent has leveraged the principles of leadership, discipline, accountability and resiliency learned in training and applied down range for building…

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  • Task Overload
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    Task Overload

    ByJoseph Paris June 29, 2021February 18, 2026

    We have all been there at least once in our lives.  It might be that we are faced with a single, big, fat, hairy challenge and we don’t know where to start.  Or it might be that we are faced with several challenges at once; each one not particularly overwhelming, but together are; with each…

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  • Being Setup for Failure
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    Being Setup for Failure

    ByJoseph Paris May 23, 2021February 18, 2026

    Employers don’t hire people – or assign them a project or task – in the hopes they will fail.  And employees don’t take on a job, project, or task in the hopes they will fail.  On the contraire, the expectations all around are that the outcome will be successful. Certainly, sometimes the outcomes are not…

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  • State of Readiness; Carey “Vixen” Lohrenz, US Navy F-14 Fighter Pilot and Author
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    State of Readiness; Carey “Vixen” Lohrenz, US Navy F-14 Fighter Pilot and Author

    ByXONITEK April 26, 2021June 16, 2021

    Her books are “Fearless Leadership” and “Span of Control” In this episode of “State of Readiness”, Joseph Paris invites Carey Lohrenz as his guest. Carey was the first female F-14 fighter pilots in the United States Navy; call-sign Vixen. Given her experiences, she knows well that inconsistent execution in fast-moving, dynamic environments can generate catastrophic…

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  • State of Readiness; David Light – President, Certainty Resources
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    State of Readiness; David Light – President, Certainty Resources

    ByXONITEK March 23, 2021June 17, 2021

    My guest today is Dave Light, owner of Certainty Resources Limited and author of the book, “The Certainty Principle”. We start this episode by exploring David’s meandering journey and how each opportunity, with some tenacity and focus, led him to the next. But his personal transformational moment, the one that helped him to decide to…

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