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  • The need for both KPIs and OKRs
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    The need for both KPIs and OKRs

    ByJoseph Paris January 27, 2024July 30, 2025

    Headline: “Business Metrics Gone Awry: The Dark Side of Relying Solely on KPIs” Subheading: “Corporate Missteps Highlight the Pitfalls of Blindly Chasing Key Performance Indicators” We read about it all the time; in a shocking turn of events, the business world is abuzz with meteoric fall of some company and its CEO, its CFO, or…

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  • Considering the Entire Employee Lifecycle
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    Considering the Entire Employee Lifecycle

    ByXONITEK December 18, 2023January 9, 2024

    I wrote an article entitled “The Strategic HR Department” where I shared my thoughts on the characteristics of a Human Resources Department that is strategic with a purpose of being an accelerant of the organization’s ambitions rather than one that is a bureaucracy whose emphasis is on compliance. Of course, compliance is an important responsibility…

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  • Establishing Kill Chains in Business Operations
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    Establishing Kill Chains in Business Operations

    ByXONITEK May 29, 2023June 9, 2023

    In my book, “State of Readiness” is a brief discussion on “Effects Chains” (pgs 271-277); which is really a re-branding (for purposes of sensibilities) of “kill chains” that I borrowed from military parlance and adapted to business. In the context of the military, a kill chain refers to a series of stages or steps that…

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  • State of Readiness | Stephan Meyer; Sacred Cows
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    State of Readiness | Stephan Meyer; Sacred Cows

    ByState of Readiness September 6, 2022September 29, 2025

    Give a listen… My guest today is Stephan Meyer PhD, CEO of Almademey Ltd. I have known Stephen for some years now, he being one of the first professionals when I arrived in Germany over a decade ago. I have always found our conversations quite interesting. Like me, he knows you can’t hit home-runs without…

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  • Best Practices for Designing and Deploying an Operational Excellence Program
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    Best Practices for Designing and Deploying an Operational Excellence Program

    ByJoseph Paris August 6, 2022September 12, 2022

    These approaches can also be applied to Continuous Improvement, Lean, or Six Sigma Programs. I started my first business, XONITEK, in August of 1985.   I still own its latest incarnation located in Jackson Wyoming.  Having owned my own businesses for the last 37 years makes me uniquely unemployable.  Perhaps that could change given the right…

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