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My Altar Boy Career
Nice Cassock Altar Boy Tommy I was required to be an altar boy for our church. I did not really want to be one but it was expected of me and the nuns at my school trained all the altar boys. They also showed somewhat blatant favoritism for altar boys, holding out faint hope that […]
Monthly Letters Equals Kaizen Discipline
I had just taken over a department and was struggling with understanding exactly what my employees were working on and what their key projects were. Most reporting to me was informal, inconsistent and incomplete. I was involved in trying to transform the department based on the new company strategies. I actually did conduct an As […]
Measuring Purchasing Effectiveness
Success in reducing cycle time can be readily measured both quantifiably and qualitatively. As a result, purchasing professionals must ensure that initial cycle-time benchmarking is carefully done before any measurements of success or outcomes are put into place. The CAPS study, Purchasing’s Contributions to Time-Based Strategies (Thomas E. Hendrick, Ph.D., 1994) lists 10 outcome areas […]
Market Your Purchasing Successes with the Use of Storyboards
By Dr. Tom DePaoli Purchasing professionals need to realize that they must not only market their purchasing strategies but their successes. Many purchasing professionals neglect to create a marketing plan for their organization. I use the term marketing plan synonymously with communication plan. Some of the goals and techniques of your marketing-communication plan should be […]
Make Your Followers “Create” Department Goals
63. Make Your Followers “Create” Department Goals Break your department up into teams. Make them come up with some goals for the year, not you. Give them no resources or tools to complete them. Require them to report on them monthly and berate them if they make no progress. Story One of my colleagues had […]
Listen To Your Followers’ Problems And Help Them.
I once had an employee who was initially very upset that I took over as leader of the department. She thought that she deserved to be promoted and become the leader. She had more experience than me. She was very cold to me and resisted any initiatives that I proposed. Shortly thereafter, her mother became […]
Leadership by Storytelling
Dr. Tom DePaoli is pleased to announce the release of a new leadership book. https://drtombooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Leadership-by-Storytelly-wmv-1.wmv Click on URL to Enjoy the above video about the book! Leadership by Storytelling: The Best Way to Learn Leadership Principles Sheboygan, Wisconsin – With the book Leadership by Storytelling, Dr. Tom DePaoli provides some excellent principles […]
Kaizens Work for Marketing Plans!
I once was involved with a major transformation of a worldwide logistics organization. At the start of the transformation, they had twenty-six divisions. They had decided to reorganize and needed some basis for the reorganization. I suggested that we first do a marketing plan, which was greeted by disbelief and catcalls. I explained my strategy […]
Kaizen Wins
Employee Complaints Answered in 29 Days versus 180 Days The grievance of a worldwide logistics system was notoriously slow and employees had to wait on average of 180 days for the grievances to be answered. Worse yet employees had a hard time finding out the status of their grievance. There were individual case workers assigned […]