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  • State of Readiness; Steve Waszak, On Organizational Alignment and Popcorn
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    State of Readiness; Steve Waszak, On Organizational Alignment and Popcorn

    ByXONITEK May 29, 2019December 30, 2020

    In this episode of State of Readiness, we speak with Steve Waszak, Vice President of Operational Excellence at Green Group Industries about organizational alignment.  For Steve, establishing organizational alignment was key to the transformation that he facilitated during his first two years in his role in OpEx.  We discuss some of the things that need…

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  • Being Clear and Concise
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    Being Clear and Concise

    ByJoseph Paris April 23, 2019February 18, 2026

    The date is November 19th, 1863.  A crisp autumn day in the fields of southern Pennsylvania in a little farm-town called Gettysburg.  Just four months earlier, the fierce battle of Gettysburg raged there as the Union and Confederate forces clashed in what mark the decisive high-water mark of the Confederate efforts to separate from the…

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  • OODA and Agility; Reaching a Conclusion Faster
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    OODA and Agility; Reaching a Conclusion Faster

    ByJoseph Paris March 19, 2019February 18, 2026

    Since the beginning of recorded history, great leaders of engagements have known two things; 1) Time is the enemy with speed and decisiveness in making a decision being an advantage and 2) there is no such thing as the perfect plan.  Therefore the ability to adapt as circumstances unfold is critical to success. Sun Tzu,…

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    State of Readiness; Donald Kuk, Continuous Improvement Leader Extraordinaire

    ByXONITEK October 2, 2018December 30, 2020

    Our guest in this episode of “State of Readiness” is Donald Kuk; continuous improvement expert extraordinaire.  He started his continuous improvement journey in the mid-1990’s at General Electric when he was personally selected by Jack Welch to join Jack and a select group of others senior leaders at GE in the very class to be…

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  • The Fault Lies Not in the Stars, but Within Ourselves
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    The Fault Lies Not in the Stars, but Within Ourselves

    ByJoseph Paris August 30, 2018February 18, 2026

    I hear all too often from professionals in Continuous Improvement how “Senior Leadership does not give me the support I need”.  Some go further by making the claim that “Senior Leadership just doesn’t understand”.  And some go further still and make the suggesting there is a conscious, if not curious, effort by senior leaders to…

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