Hello and welcome to another edition of State of Readiness. I am your host Joseph Paris. My guest today is Innocent Hadebe, Director of Business Excellence for Chick-fil-A Corporate. I met Innocent like a meet a great many people and that would be through LinkedIn. Of course my initial attraction to Innocent was that we…
Did you know there are leadership skills you can learn from golf? It’s true – spending more time on the course can help your career! Want a valid excuse to spend more time on the golf course and less in front of the TV or at the office? The leadership skills you can learn from…
This article is a last of a series about a turn-around engagement I had in 2021. From the outside, even on the surface, the company looked successful. But by the time I arrived, a serious cancer had metastasized and had left no organ, no business function, without considerable rot. It was going to take invasive…
Back in the middle of 2017, as Tesla was ramping up the production of the Model-3 and the company was worth only $63.5 billion (as opposed to $1 trillion today), Elon Musk famously stated that he was entering “Production Hell“. Evidently, he made it through just fine. But people reading this might think; “Isn’t Musk…
I had a project where I was hired to try to help turn a company around. The challenges faced existed across the entirety of the company. In fact, there was no function of the company that was operating at an acceptable level. This company was very sick. The owner of the company and I made…
Today I invite back to “State of Readiness”, Brent Gleeson, a Navy SEAL combat veteran and serial entrepreneur. In addition to being a best-selling author of “Taking Point” and his new release, “Embrace the Suck“, Brent has leveraged the principles of leadership, discipline, accountability and resiliency learned in training and applied down range for building…
