I was coaching one of the national oil companies in the Middle East, offering mentorship to the director of their operational excellence program. He was frustrated because he had invested considerable funds building a team of sixty Lean Six Sigma Black Belts over a nine-month period, and they had not yet worked on—much less completed—any project nor had they realized any benefit to the company.
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We as humans like to categorize. Whether it be genres and sub genres of music, which mobile apps that all accomplish something similar are best to worst, or which foods are the healthiest.
But the area we find ourselves categorizing the most today is our generational differences in the workforce, success and what success means to different generations, especially in manufacturing.
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Nobody wants to be sick, or to gradually become less and less functional as they grow older. Sometimes sickness is unavoidable, such as when a sick coworker sneezes on you, or you grasp a doorknob that they have just touched. There’s not much you can do about that, aside from becoming a hermit and living alone in a cave on a mountaintop. Continue reading
Since the political drama unfolded in Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s hearings on 9/27/18 in Capital Hill, multiple crises in institutional, political and personal levels were exposed. When the whole country was shocked and impacted by the devastating real-life drama, two exemplary stateswomen demonstrated their courageous, wise and deliberate decision making process to turn the traumatic agitation back to stability. Continue reading
Malls are going south in the U.S. General retail may also go the same way, unless shops transform themselves. Here’s our story why retail is facing an apocalypse.
My family used to own two businesses in different malls. The rent in the mall was ten times higher than a retail space outside the mall. Also, the retailer would have to sign a rental contract for five to ten years and every year the rent would increase. Continue reading