Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – June 2018
Issue: 2018-06 June 2018 Founder’s Corner Eliminating Waste – Scheduling by Joseph Paris If you ever find yourself saying; “There must be a better way”, I can guarantee you that there is. All we...
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Issue: 2018-07 July 2018 Dog Days of Summer The origin of the phrase, “the dog days of summer”, actually has nothing to do with the notion that dogs (and most people) are really lazy when it’s...
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Issue: 2018-08 August 2018 Message from our Founder The origins of the summer holiday break are often believed to be rooted in agriculture. It is widely believed that the school calendar follows the...
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Issue: 2018-09 September 2018 Message from the Founder The days are getting shorter and the air is more crisp. For me, it’s the time of year when my energy level increases for I am not a fan of...
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Issue: 2018-11 October 2018 Message from the Founder “For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!” -William Shakespeare It is that time of year. The trees have lost their leaves in a blaze...
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Issue: 2018-11 November 2018 Message from the Founder “People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” – Anton Chekhov You go to work and it’s dark. You come home...
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A Year in Review December 2018 Message from the Founder As we complete another circuit around the sun, we find ourselves reflective of the year’s hard-fought battles won and lost, of loves arrived...
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January 2019 Monthly Musing By now, most of us have made and broken our “New Year’s Resolutions”. But I recently came across the idea of a “dream-map” which might prove to be more useful....
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February 2019 Monthly Musing February is the nastiest month of the year. The warmth of the holidays and joyous gatherings with friends and family are gone – all that is left as evidence that they...
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March 2019 Monthly Musing Why do we assume more words, and a more complex vocabulary is better? Why should we write a 500-word essay when 150-words (or fewer) will get the same information across?...
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Issue: 2018-02 February 2018 Founder’s Corner Lean Six Sigma – Reality or Myth? by Joseph Paris “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the...
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Issue: 2018-03 March 2018 Founder’s Corner Who has the “Old Maid”? by Joseph Paris I was speaking with a friend who is the Chief Operating Officer of a multi-national chemical processing company a...
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Issue: 2018-04 April 2018 Founder’s Corner Leveraging Technology in Pharma by Joseph Paris I am not easily impressed by technology. In fact, I am often a contrarian and don’t easily buy into the...
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Issue: 2018-04 April 2018 Founder’s Corner Leveraging Technology in Pharma by Joseph Paris I am not easily impressed by technology. In fact, I am often a contrarian and don’t easily buy into the...
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April 2019 Monthly Musing It’s that time of year again – golf season. I play golf, I don’t work golf. There is nothing more satisfying than hitting the ball well. I know, because it happens so...
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May 2019 Monthly Musing Whether high school or college, students around the world are graduating. Some will go on to further their education, some will enter the job market – many for the first time....
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June 2019 Monthly Musing If you believe that “time is the enemy of the 21st Century company”, then meetings are the guerilla fighters sent as saboteurs. Most meetings are an exercise in mental...
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July 2019 Monthly Musing I have been very fortunate that I have had several formal mentors in my life. They never told me what to do, rather offer guidance based on their knowledge and the wisdom...
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August 2019 Monthly Musing We are in the “Dog Days of Summer”, the period between early July and early September. The origin of the phrase is from the heliacal rising of Sirius, also known as the Dog...
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September 2019 Monthly Musing I have recently come across several missives that place various management methodologies on an unassailable pedestal – elevated to near religious standing complete with...
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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...
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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...
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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...
View ArticleOperational 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...
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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...
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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.” –...
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Helping companies to become high-performance organizations Operational Excellence By DesignSM April 2020 Monthly Musing “Do what you can, with what you got, from where you are.” – Teddy...
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Helping companies to become high-performance organizations Operational Excellence By Design SM May 2020 Monthly Musing “In the Legion, you march or you die” – Unofficial Motto of the French Foreign...
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Helping companies to become high-performance organizations Operational Excellence By Design SM June 2020 Monthly Musing “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind...
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Helping companies to become high-performance organizations Operational Excellence By Design SM July 2020 Monthly Musing The phrase, “The Dog Days of Summer” has its origin from the Greeks and...
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