Operational Excellence is a state of readiness that is attained as the efforts throughout the organization reach a state of alignment for achieving its strategies; and where the corporate culture is committed to the continuous and deliberate improvement of company performance AND the circumstances of those who work there – to pursue ‘Operational Excellence by Design‘, and not by coincidence.
Joseph F Paris Jr; Founder
The Outliers Inn; What is Truth?
Welcome to the latest podcast from the Outliers Inn – Episode 11 Topic: There are laws of nature, which are absolute. If we find an error in these laws, it is not nature which is wrong, but our understanding of nature that is wrong. Compare this with laws made by man which, as such, evolve…
Small Island for Sale
With Britain attracting so many foreign investments to their shores, one has to wonder if they are shooting themselves in the foot? If local owners were majority share holders, one would assume that job creation would be on the rise and that more employment opportunities would be created locally, thus empowering the community. By selling…
Many-Tasking for Greater Productivity
Many-tasking My goal in writing this is to be educational and help others learn from my successful experiments, but I’m also hoping to coin a new term. The term is “Many-tasking.” Many-tasking turns multi-tasking inside out: Where multi-tasking is dividing one person’s time across many tasks, usually very inefficiently, many-tasking is having many people focus…
Why the Empathetic Leader Is the Best Leader
Simon Sinek had penned a best-selling book on team-building and given a TED Talk when he discovered the secret of leadership as being empathy – that now governs his philosophy. Empathy—the ability to recognize and share other people’s feelings—is the most important instrument in a leader’s toolbox, Sinek believes. Based on a few lessons to be…
Is Breakthrough a Dirty Word?
The history of fuel economy standards in the US automobile industry is an excellent example of typical resistance to Breakthrough. It portrays how yesterday’s environmental obstruction is today’s common sense.
Before there is Passion, there must first be: Interest, then Belief, then Ability, then Success
When I was growing-up, I had a lot of passions – or at least I thought they were passions. Fortunately, I was blessed with having a structure at home and at school that supported me in the exploration and development of my passions; or at least mostly supported me. My first such recollection was in…