Choose Your Hard Life is a never-ending stream of decisions. From the moment we wake up in the morning to the time we go to sleep, we are making decisions. Even the very act of waking up and going to sleep is a decision. After all, we don’t have to wake up or go to sleep; we make the decision to wake up and go to sleep. Like waking up and going to sleep, most decisions are easy. They don’t require too much thought and the risk profile is nominal. But not all decisions we make are that easy. Some require a bit more thought. For example, think about making plans for a vacation. First, you must decide where you would like to go, taking into consideration where everyone in your party might want to go and what they might want to do when they get there. Unless you are going to Yuma Arizona, where it’s warm and sunny almost all year long, you are going to want to consider the weather. And then there are the flights, auto rentals, and hotels to consider for budget, time, and costs-benefits (value). Other decisions require considerable contemplation – and these decisions might even be overwhelming at times – with there being even more variables to contemplate and where the risks are amplified; like getting married, having children, and purchasing a house. And most of the time, these life decisions will not be able to be made unilaterally but involve others. Rather, the conflict and consensus will (should) lead to a negotiated solution where the intersection of considerations, which are shared and mutually agreed, reach a point where a decision can be made. In many of these situations, there is no easy answer or easy way. We have to choose our hard. By Joseph Paris |
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One Shift at a Time Let’s first make an assumption; that the personnel on the production floor were properly informed in absolute terms what the goals of the plant and the company might be and properly empowered to assess situations as they presented themselves. This is not a given, for all too often the people and their abilities to think critically on the production floor are considered as not much more than the equipment they operated. When companies are first founded, their spirit and nature is that of an entrepreneurial organization. They are agile and nimble; able to assess a situation and make decisions in real-time. And they can do this because their organizational structure is very compact. But as they grow, they lose this compactness and put in place rigid standards for operation, often too rigid and also too inflexible. They take away decision-making in the field and consolidate it further up the chain of command. And in doing so, they also lose touch with what is actually happening on the production floor and are unable to see the challenges (both opportunities and threats) that might exist. But why does this have to be? It doesn’t, and it shouldn’t. By Andreas Eschbach |
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Time is the enemy, and in these challenging times… … are you and your organization Ready? Thousands of people and companies from around the world have benefited from participating in my “State of Readiness Masterclass and Workshop“. I am Joseph Paris; and I help companies become high-performance organizations by using operational excellence to be in a “state of readiness“. In addition to my masterclass and workshop, contact me if you need a dynamic and impactful speaker to deliver a keynote, or plenary/breakout session for your corporate event or conference. I am also an experienced event chairperson, panelist or panel moderator. Click below to receive a copy of my biography and the abstract of my “State of Readiness Masterclass & Workshop” and select plenary sessions. |
SUPERCHARGED SUPPLY CHAIN: PPE, Protecting Your Business |
We are in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic. And while much of the attention has been focused on rates of infection, outcomes, treatments, vaccines, masks, and social distancing, there has been little attention paid to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), which includes items such as; masks (of varying types), gloves, sanitizers, and other materials that can be used to help protect an individual from becoming infected with COVID-19. In this episode of Supercharged Supply Chain, Ron and Joseph will discuss some of the challenges and perils in the PPE supply chain under the current circumstances and conditions; what some of the risks might be and some of the measures you might take to protect yourself. |
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In this episode, we hear Manny’s story and start by talking about his current role at the CCDC and the confluence of research, data, data analytics, and converting that research and data into a basis for making decisions about the future operations and capabilities of the US Army. Of particular interest is that the nature of what the CCDC and he are doing goes contraire to a lot of his past experience and training. . |
We are very happy here at the Operational Excellence Society to welcome Supercharged Supply Chain. This podcast serves as a brief introduction of its mission, and its co-hosts, Ron Liebman and Joseph Paris. In this episode, we share with our guests what the mission of Supercharged Supply Chain is and what we hope to deliver in our future episodes. |
A poet, a cartoonist, and a singer-songwriter walk into a bar… No, it’s not the beginning of a terrible joke; but the introduction into a very different episode of The Outliers Inn. We guess even among the outliers we will find the occasional outlier; and this episode is that outlier. Come give a listen… |
As the 2020 elections in the United States fast approach, it might be appropriate to look at an article that was published about the same time as the 2016 elections; there are certainly many parallels to be made. And it is also a good time to revisit some of the concepts of game theory that were put forth and see how the situations in the past might compare to the present. |
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