Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – March 2020

Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – March 2020

March, 2020 Monthly Musing       “Do what you can, with what you got, from where you are.” – Teddy Roosevelt “Readiness is not about when things go right, but what you do when things go wrong.” – Joseph Paris     Founder’s Corner Never let a serious crisis go to waste       In…

Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – February 2020

Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – February 2020

February, 2020 Monthly Musing     “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life,  ourselves, and the world around us.”   – Socrates                         Founder’s Corner Scaling and Sustaining Your Education and Training Program     I have…

Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – January 2020

Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – January 2020

January, 2020 Monthly Musing “Press on! For in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! While yet you may.“ Nathaniel Parker Willis   Founder’s Corner Leaving a Positive and Indelible Mark     As we get older, it’s interesting what we recall from our youth and the impact it had upon…

Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – December 2019

Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – December 2019

December 2019 Monthly Musing   “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”  – T. S. Eliot             Founder’s Corner   Holiday Greetings     As we complete another circuit around the…

Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – November 2019

Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – November 2019

November 2019 Monthly Musing Someone asked, “What is your ‘Superpower’?”  I told them that I am able to take a complex situation and distill it down to its major elements, prioritize the efforts necessary, and devise and deploy decisive responses – all in a fraction of the time it would take others.  This is not…

Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – October 2019

Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – October 2019

October 2019 Monthly Musing This is a generalization, but the real reason why most engineers rarely make good business people is because they are fixated on the perfect.  They are terrified of what they do not know or understand – and even more terrified to release to those who do.  Their idea of too much…