tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98765742011-07-28T03:33:10.278-07:00Business Wisdom, we never know enough and the more we know the more we realize how much we don't know. Today with so much information, we need to know what's relevant. Rarely do we have moments of "orgasmic genius" that create original thoughts, and so much of what I have, has been given to me by those much smarter than me. LivingTheDream Turn the Key and Smile.livingthedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14013422739513091900noreply@blogger.comBlogger351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9876574.post-73120383551716523672008-01-08T13:51:00.000-08:002008-01-08T13:52:32.832-08:00

I think the time has come to finally accept Global Warming and admit that Mr. Gore is right. The mighty Northern Buckeye, who for several years now has won its primeval duel with the small but ferocious furry animal from the upper hand, has now succumbed twice to warmer climate foes.We can now conclusively say that Buckeyes cannot live in the environment of the Bayou Tiger or the Gator. In fact

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As most of you know one thing that trips my trigger is productivity. And boy this time I have got one productivity sink that we must remedy before it breaks us.Have you been on the rural interstate highways lately? I mean away from the big cities?What do you see out there? Lines and lines of trucks. And those trucks are the lifeline of our economy. What this country needs to do is to go three

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Well its time. Though I have not been blogging with regularity, I have finally gotten to the point that its time to do a book. I will start with an e-book format, but hopefully it will get enough interest to someday become a book.I have blogged before about courtesy (check the archives) in relationship to business. But the time has arrived that we need to get some advocacy for courtesy. Bill

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This term has been in my vocabulary for nearly 10 years now, and when I googled it up the other day I was amazed that someone I knew had used it on their website and not remembered me. Of course, I am known for using things I have seen, heard or read and not always remembered who or where I got it. Oh well.livingthedream

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This country has been built by immigrants, its culture, its freedom, its entrepreneurship, its attitude are all because immigrants came here and became here. Most all of them legally. Ellis Island and San Francisco are tributes to all of them.What faces us now are immigrants who are coming but not becoming. They say they want to be Americans but their actions tell another story. What other

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The leaders of the supply chain, demand chain, value chain and other major descriptions of the movement , assembly, sales, & delivery of raw materials, work in progress and finished goods industries, have done a wonderful job of enhancing our knowledge in these arenas.Association, cooperation, integration, partnering, communication and all the way to federation have defined and developed how we

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In some meetings held over the last several months, I have been surprised to find a new generation of greed rising up in business. After all the news about fraud and corruption in business and B-schools getting focused on ethics I am a bit disappointed to have seen it again. Companies often put parts of their work out for bid, RFQ or tender. Transportation, distribution and logistics are

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As discussed in earlier posts, we have folded, bent or mutilated much of our people skills in business over the years beginning with the memo, then voicemail, the fax, overnight mail, email, text messaging, instant messaging and other digital forms of communications. Slowly but surely we have withdrawn ourselves into our cubes and offices away from others and now spend our days responding to the

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What’s Important?Do you like what you do? Are you good at what you do? Does what you do excite you and motivate you to get going every day? Do you believe that you are actually accomplishing something? Do you sometimes think that because you care your going crazy? Or you wish sometimes that you would not care, but you cannot stop caring? Do you think you can change the world? Do you believe?

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Contribution Management- CTSIn previous posts I have tried to hammer home the thought that the most important thing in your business is your customer’s order. Nothing else has value except that. It is, without exception the most important thing. As a relatively famous young singer would say, “Oops I’ve done it again”.Once you decide that the order IS the most important asset in your company, then

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Things move too fast, time accelerates. It’s March and I am not sure what happened to February. The faster you go the more patience you need (LTD Business Rule #10), and patience is needed to listen.“Generous Listening” as it is noted by Larry Cone in his article Four Skills of Generous Listening at the IT toolbox Blogs. Mr. Cone mentions the four skills as; paying attention, replication,

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In Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal Marketplace section under the heading MANAGING YOUR CAREER was an article by Joann S. Lublin titled, “Winning New Position with Same Employer Requires Trying Harder” in which Ms Lublin takes the position that you “need to spend more time preparing for an in-house move…” Polish the brass, do more research, find out what the hiring managers like or dislike and on

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“War is hell! “ the old general says as he surveys the smoldering battlefield and then turns away puffing on his cigar, looking old as he walks back to his jeep. Business is like war too. It may not be as bloody, but it is no less competitive, no less stressful, no less cutthroat, no less demanding, no less intense and certainly no less about taking no prisoners. The one thing that is more

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While perusing through the IT Toolbox newsletter a link took me to the blogs there (http://blogs.ittoolbox.com) where a post named “Perspectives on Globalization” by Indranil Mukherjee caught my eye. With several of his colleagues Mr. Mukherjee put forth a premise that “the human race is basically lazy and whatever progress (or otherwise) in Civilization we have made so far has been largely

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In last weeks CFO.com Members Newsletter, Marie Leone writes “Courts and Torts: Bankruptcy’s Perks” where she describes a company that is recovering from 9/11 and suddenly gets hit with a suit to return a $30,000 payment they received (and were due) from a company that had recently filed bankruptcy. (http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/3640863?pcode=members_0210 )Companies that file bankruptcy can

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One more time to wrap up this thread for the moment. I was reviewing several blogs today while waiting for the rain to stop to let my friends and I go racing. (It kept raining all day)If you are a regular to this blog you know that I believe in having some fun. Even at work, in fact if you are not having fun at work, stay home. Find something else to do. (See the post: “At Work, What is

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(Let me start by saying that as a business process oriented person, workflow is critical to the success of any business, but not in the context about to be discussed. A future post will begin the subject of business process management and business process modeling.) In his article “Businesses Need Automated Workflow” Will Kriski writes in a newsletter that regularly drops into my in-box called

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In my post "What Does Business Need" a few days ago, Ralph was kind enough to drop some comments back. It seems that Ralph is involved with customer service at an electric utility and has to deal with customers who are not quite on time with paying their bills. You have to love people like Ralph who go to work knowing that he will have to draw the line on some of the customers he will speak

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As I have mentioned in previous posts, the second half of my career is dedicated to business process management (BPM). Now, before you think that my early life was logistics and my current one BPM, let me stop you there and explain that as a systemic thinker my whole life is process improvement and supply chain/logistics has always been process management. So the two are current and in harmony

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Another of the several periodicals that should be read is CFO Magazine. I, like most of you am not a Chief Financial Officer, but once past the pure accounting and treasury articles that are too technical (some are ready for the non-CFO to read and absorb) there are good insights to be gleaned from this publication. As many publications do as the new year begins, they do a recap of the best of

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What does business need? A pretty broad question that can inspire answers from across the spectrum. Can you think of it? What does business need? Bake it down to two things if you can. What would your two be? Lets see, training, diversity, technology, communications, and dozens and dozens more..... Here's mine. Honesty and courtesy. Do what you say and be polite. We all can live with

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In order to stay true to myself I have to give a bit of Logistics 101 here. Most people when they hear the word logistics, if they know it at all, they think of the military. Since time began, warriors have needed weapons, food, clothes, and a host of other things to keep them ready, capable and willing to fight. Thus logistics was born from the ox carts and wagon trains to carry everything

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As mentioned in previous posts, I regularly read CIO magazine and its regular newsletter. My interest is not usually the technology but the business management and leadership articles that are placed there to help round out those readers who have been mainly technologists. This month an article by Christopher Koch named “Innovation Ships Out” puts forth the fact that in the technology value

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An article by CNN’s Lou Dobbs called, “Is Outsourcing Killing Jobs” in Optimize Magazine (http://www.optimizemag.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=30000295 ) starts with the premise that the American middle class is being forced to compete with cheap foreign labor which will result in systemic job loss and a reduction in our standard of living. I beg to differ. What has been overlooked in the

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From time to time in my email is one of my favorite newsletters, Corporate Warfare and today was one of those times. “The Risk of Normal Innovation” by Tal Newhart, ( http://www.talnewhart.com/ ) was the topic in the Corporate War Newsletter (http://parconresearch.com/corpwar ) Now I have to admit I am something of a hawk when it comes to defense and business. Or maybe you could say it is just

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One of my favorite magazines to read is CIO (Chief Information Officer). I am not a CIO, nor am I a techie of any quality but CIO always has a few interesting articles. They reach out to technical people (CIO's in particular) and gives them both business and leadership articles in order to round out their capabilities from the core of technology. It is these articles that I really enjoy. I

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The posts are not flying out as planned as I have taken some time to read "BLOG" by Hugh Hewitt. Apologies... will continue with more biz wisdom shortly. LivingtheDream

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Over time there have been a few discoveries of business rules that apply to all. Some have been given, some found and some were moments of orgasmic genius that came from me but I cannot take the credit for. All that I am came from a merciful God, my family and all those who gave to me freely of their wisdom for better or worse. Thus far in my thirty (30) years of working I have noted almost

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So, do you like what you do? Are you good at what you do? Does what you do excite you and motivate you to get going every day? Do you believe that you are actually accomplishing something? Do you sometimes think that because you care your going crazy? Or you wish sometimes that you would not care, but you cannot stop caring? Do you think you can change the world? Are you good at pushing

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While burrowing through the stack on my desk to glean a few nuggets of biz-wiz-dumb I came across a thought from Judith Anderson of Anderson & Rust Consultants that said that (in a business context), “When upset emotions surface, nothing of meaning will be accomplished until they are effectively addressed.” At first look that makes sense, but after a bit of thinking about it I end up having to

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A few more items today, as a new blogger getting my first responses is very meaningful. First a thanks to Hugh Hewitt (www.hughhewitt.com) who mentioned my blog, many thanks to be noted by someone of his stature. Second I appreciated the note I got from The Comp Expert at (www.thecompexpert.blogspot.com) who has now led me into a network of business type blogs. Third and not lastly is the long

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Today was my first day back at work for two weeks over the holidays. If I had my choice we would keep praising Jesus for his birth, life, death, ressurection and the gift of the Holy Spirit that he left us instead of going back to work. A good nugget from Christ is in James 1:19, to be applied in life or in business or anywhere... that we should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to

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While reading through my daily blog list starting with Hugh Hewitt's blog (www.hughhewitt.com) and moving to the next which is the evangelical outpost (www.evangelicaloutpost.com) I came across the fourth in a great series of posts about starting a blog. It should be read and listened to (specifically by me who is just getting started). While in that part IV post the 'long tail' was mentioned.

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Have you set your objectives for the New Year? Not just the ones that your incentive compensation is driven by, or the ones that the company or department has set. Though these are important, what are YOUR objectives? THESE ARE NOT NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS!!! If you have not thought about them, take some time now to do so. Don't spend a week, spend 30 minutes, an hour at most. What do you

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Don’t let your talent do you in! Others may not be as smart, or work as hard and probably find you intimidating. That does not make us better, just different. To have a fire, one needs to cut the tree and one needs to stack the wood, two different but needed actions for the fire needing different talents and skills. As well, speed and intensity (a sense of urgency) is often seen as arrogance

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