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Book Review: PROACTIVE Problem Solving — A Fresh Take on Building a Problem-Solving Culture 0
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- June 22, 2026
Stop Fixing Problems. Start Fixing Systems. Most organizations don’t suffer from a lack of problems. They suffer from a lack of people who feel empowered to solve them. Walk through almost any workplace and you’ll hear employees complain about inefficient processes, unnecessary bureaucracy, recurring mistakes, and frustrating workarounds. Yet many of those same employees
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Book Review: Building Culture the NASA Way 0
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- June 17, 2026
What NASA’s Mission Framework Can Teach Leaders About Building Better Organizations As a kid, I dreamed of becoming an astronaut. I attended Space Camp in Huntsville three different times, fascinated by rockets, space exploration, and the incredible accomplishments of NASA. While my career ultimately took a different path—engineering, manufacturing, and continuous improvement—that interest in
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Book Review: Rewriting Leadership for a More Human Workplace 0
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- June 3, 2026
A Review of Rewriting the Rules by Ron Sosa Leadership books often promise better productivity, stronger teams, or sharper execution. What makes Rewriting the Rules: A Leadership Model for a Neuroinclusive, Human-Centered Workplace different is that Ron Sosa starts with a different question entirely: What if the problem is not the people, but the systems
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Book Review: Go for Third – Leadership Lessons from the Softball Field to the Workplace by Derek Volk 0
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- February 23, 2026
In Go for Third, Derek Volk brings together two worlds that might at first seem unrelated—girls’ softball and running a successful manufacturing business—to offer leadership insights that are both accessible and actionable. According to the book’s description, the lessons Volk learned coaching softball and leading his company, Volk Packaging Corporation, translate into something much
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Book Review: Operationally Svelte by Duane Deason 0
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- February 11, 2026
In Operationally Svelte: Manage Costs to Increase Profit and Enhance Performance, Duane Deason delivers a timely and practical guide to one of the most overlooked drivers of organizational excellence: cost management. Drawing on decades of experience across finance, operations, and executive advisory roles, Deason argues that companies don’t fail because they grow too slowly—they
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Book Review: The Facade of Excellence by John Dyer 0
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- February 4, 2026
In The Facade of Excellence: Defining a New Normal of Leadership, John Dyer delivers a powerful and thought-provoking look at the cultural challenges that often undermine Lean transformations. Through a creative narrative, Dyer uses a fictional manufacturing company to illustrate how well-intentioned leaders can unintentionally build a “facade” of continuous improvement—one that looks good from
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