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Typical Recruiting: The first step to the last straw

January 3, 2012

From time to time I am contacted by recruiters, usually third-party folks who are looking to gain a commission, and once in a while I get a message from an in-house recruiter who has found my resume on monster.com or LinkedIn. The typical introduction, whether by phone or email, tends to go something like: Hello, I am ___________, a senior recruiter with ___________. I have a position I think you are a perfect fit for. Please forward me your resume and I’ll give you more details about the position. Now, all of that sounds normal, right? It’s...

Understanding that Results are an absolute

December 21, 2011

By David M. Kasprzak

Understanding that Results are an absolute

As I continue to contemplate the machinations of the Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE), I've had a few conversations recently with people who are trying to understand how ROWE works. While I am far fom an expert, I have come up with a few things in order to share my understanding.

Scholtes: The workplace visionary no one’s heard of

November 29, 2011

By David M. Kasprzak

In recent years, we've seen some thought leaders offer up best selling books, visionary programs and torrents of articles and other works describing what is wrong, how to fix it, and attempting to explain the science behind their approaches. In particular, Dan Pink gave us Drive, Best Buy gave us the ROWE experiment, and Lean thinkers continue to encourage us to think of front-line emplyees first, as in Jim Womack's Gemba Walk. What I find interesting is that all of these approaches to improving the workplace, at least in part, have some basis in Peter Scholtes 1998 Book, The...

Making Your Network…Work

November 11, 2011

By Geoffrey Lennon

Recently, I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to witness several strong examples of the positive impact that real, strategic networking can have. Being a part of these particular examples got me thinking a bit more about networking and what it truly means in the age of Facebook and LinkedIn.

More Mura Muri? (or, the reasons behind changing everything)

October 26, 2011

By David M. Kasprzak

More Mura Muri? (or, the reasons behind changing everything)

The truth is, the way we live our lives is broken. We see reformers in education, healthcare, management, personal organization, stress relief, motivation, and nearly every other area continuing to talk about ways to address the same things, over and over: Adjusting to an ever-changing, unpredictable world and finding a way to keep yourself, and others, from going crazy while doing it. Or, in other words: Mura and Muri.

Article Review: Supply Chain at the C-level

September 30, 2011

By David M. Kasprzak

Article Review: Supply Chain at the C-level

Michael Koplov over at softwareadvice.com contacted me last week to write a review of his article, Consumer-Driven Technology Creates the Need for a C-Level Supply Chain Focus. The article focuses on the ascension of Tim Cook to the CEO position at Apple, following Steve Jobs’ decision to step down from the position due to health-related issues. More accurately, Michael discusses Cook’s background in manufacturing and, even more accurately, in supply chain. He writes: What’s most surprising about Cook’s move up the ladder at places like IBM, Compaq and then Apple, however, isn’t his track record or reputation, it’s...

The recipe: From Estimating to Planning

September 22, 2011

By David M. Kasprzak

Estimating is just one step along the way towards designing an executable project. The next thing that is necessary is a plan - and estimating is a quite different exercise from planning. A plan takes into account not just what needs to be done when, but how things move throughout the project, who moves them, when it will happen, what that movement enables or restricts, and an identification of what might change over the course of the project.

Process Improvement and the free flow of laundry

September 12, 2011

By David M. Kasprzak

Process Improvement and the free flow of laundry

Around the house, we've always had a problem with laundry. There's always a heap waiting to be ironed, hampers are overflowing, and many morning a search for clean socks would necessitate a trip to the basement to dig out a fresh pair from a laundry basket that was washed a week ago but still waiting to be folded. While a lot of folks might point to large-scale factory-wide process improvement efforts that take months to design and implement, I'm pretty content knowing that I was able to take all those concepts and apply them right here.......at home.....where it counts.

Work/Life Synthesis

September 6, 2011

By David M. Kasprzak

So, you may have noticed some changes around here. I decided, in order to really express what I believe is at the heart of this blog, that I needed some help. I hope you’ll enjoy the posts from guest bloggers in the future as I invite them to share their thoughts on “Management Excellence and the Work/Life Synthesis.” Work and life are not two opposing forces that are constantly trying to pull against each other in some sort of eternal tug-of-way. They are parts of the same whole: the person that creates them both. A constant struggle between the...

Maps of War

August 18, 2011

By David M. Kasprzak

I came across this really, really interesting site today: Maps of War. On the site are several animated maps depicting the spread of democracy, the casualties in the Invasion & Occupation of Iraq, the history of conquest in the Middle East, the spread of religion, and many other events from antiquity to today, including battles and campaigns of WWI and WWII. What I am wondering is how these maps could be incorporated into improvement practices? For one, wouldn’t it be great to have a history of your organization? Knowing how to get to your future state might have a...

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Posts Tagged ‘ Systems ’

Typical Recruiting: The first step to the last straw

Understanding that Results are an absolute

Scholtes: The workplace visionary no one’s heard of

Making Your Network…Work

More Mura Muri? (or, the reasons behind changing everything)

Article Review: Supply Chain at the C-level

The recipe: From Estimating to Planning

Process Improvement and the free flow of laundry

Work/Life Synthesis

Maps of War

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