#173 – A STATE OF READINESS – JOSEPH PARIS

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image001-2-300x300-250x250It’s taken a long time—but the time has finally come.  The release of my book, “State of Readiness”, has arrived.

My project officially started almost two and a half years ago.  That was the day I formally sat down and decided to write a book.  But it’s beginning can be traced to an article I wrote in 2012 entitled, “The Operational Excellence Manifesto”.  It was one of the more significant articles I had written and was the result of a considerable amount of listening, learning, and experiencing. Continue reading

#172 – FAIL FAST – FAIL SMALL – LEARN AND MOVE ON – JOSEPH PARIS

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image001-2-300x300-250x250Nobody likes to fail. Failing causes us embarrassment. Failing bruises our ego. Failing might be a dark spot on our performance assessments. All we have to do is reflect on our childhood for when we failed and how poorly we felt. Even if our parents did give us encouragement, we still felt bad about failing. Let’s face it – failing sucks.

In most countries, if you fail at business, you carry the stigma of that failure with you for a long time – perhaps forever. The Economist did a great article entitled “European entrepreneurs; Les misérables” in June of 2012. Continue reading

#171 – DOING RIGHT VS. DOING IT RIGHT – JOSEPH PARIS

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Paris_Aug2012It seems that not a day goes by without our reading about someone getting caught in the processes of a system – aggreged not (necessarily) by nefarious intent, but by a process that didn’t take into consideration some set of circumstances.  Sometimes, the angst endured is amplified by the subsequent processes initiated in a chain of events.

Take the situation of Dr. David Dao who, on April 9th 2017, was supposed to fly from Chicago to Louisville on United Flight 3411.  Continue reading

#169 – CEO’s AND THEIR SAUSAGES – LEARN TO LOVE THEM LIKE THEY DO – JOSEPH PARIS

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image001-2-300x300-250x250It’s been another week, much like the many other weeks for me.  In addition to running a couple of companies, working on a few projects and pitching others, and the routine management and engagement of the Operational Excellence Group on LinkedIn; I had a few more conversations with the leadership of Continuous Improvement or Operational Excellence (CI/OpEx) Programs at various companies (most in the Fortune 1,000).

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#163 – THE GIG ECONOMY – NO JOBS JUST WORK! – JOSEPH PARIS

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image001-2-300x300-250x250There has been a lot written lately of the “Gig Economy” – the notion that, in the future of earning a living, there will no longer be jobs, just work.  It’s an earnings environment where the supply and demand for skillsets are contracted between those that have a need and those who can fulfill that need. Continue reading