“Why didn’t this part get ordered yesterday? Who changed the setting on this field? When this happens we need to hold that person accountable!” We were trapped in another frustrating meeting, a cross-functional team searching for the root cause behind operational failures in our facility. Some items were lost in the warehouse, others were suddenly running […]
What a Beauty! My “Hockey’s Greatest” book review
Are you looking for a memorable gift for the hockey fan in your life? I can highly recommend you check out Hockey’s Greatest, a captivating coffee-table book from Sports Illustrated featuring an introduction from NHL writer extraordinaire Michael Farber. SI was good enough to send me a review copy of this heavyweight 256-page tome, which carries […]
My review of “Nashville Predators: The Making of Smashville”
For Nashville Predators fans, there aren’t many books which delve into the history of the franchise, either at the organizational or personal level. There’s Hockey Tonk, which chronicles the early days of the team, My Toughest Faceoff, about longtime associate coach Brent Peterson and his battle with Parkinson’s Disease, and most recently former fan favorite Jordin Tootoo […]
The Negative Message That Leads to Positive Results
General managers in the business world are an impressive bunch of people. Masters of multiple disciplines and personal productivity, they typically rise through the ranks of their organizations due to a demonstrated ability for driving change within an operation. These are the people who get things done, and motivate organizations to get things done on a […]
That time I had to learn a computer language older than I was
Once upon a time I enjoyed a wonderful job as a Business Systems Analyst, working in a distribution center to make changes to our Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP) in order to optimize the operation one step at a time. Basically I would translate business needs into functional requirements that our programmers could meet, and over time our […]
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