The Outliers Inn

Topic: It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to hoover it. What can improv and performing comedy tell us about learning and collaboration?  After discovering several contacts in common, JP and Benjamin are joined by the Public Service Transformation Academy's   Paul Conneely to talk insights from his past forays into improv and comedy and their applicability to the developing collaborate and inn...

About the Podcast Topic: Joining AntlerBoy and JP today at the Outliers Inn is Michael Webb, President of Sales Performance Consultants.  Michael will share the wisdom he has gained working in sales; from his start at Borroughs Corporation, and Rockwell Automation before founding his firm in 2002.  Most people believe there are two types of sales forecasts; wrong ones and lucky ones.  But Michael...

Topic:  We welcome Don Burshnick, President of Alpha-1 Technologies LLC to "The Outliers Inn", where we will learn of the importance of preventative maintenance and the conflict that exists between maintaining equipment so that it runs in an optimal state and a company's reluctance to invest in the proper maintenance of their equipment and being satisfied with keeping their machines running, even...

About the Podcast Topic:  In this episode, your hosts, AntlerBoy an JP, start by lamenting the software industry and their almost arrogant – sometimes not almost arrogant – disregard for the customer and the user experience.  Not that software companies will ever change, but rather a resignation that we have to endure.  But the episode gets productive, or rather reproductive, with the introduction...

Topic:  Most companies strive to be high-performing organizations – the equivalent of having "six-pack abs".  But getting fit takes a lot of dedication and hard work – and unfortunately, most companies just have "ab".  In this episode of The Outliers Inn, Jim will share with us his experiences in trying to help companies become leaner and meaner; the challenges companies face, the challenges he ha...

About the Podcast Topic:  Join us today with our favorite bespeckled guest, Phil "Just like it Sounds" Gerbyshak – and the first return guest to our show.  In this episode, we will discuss the importance of effective communication and we will discuss the impact of Social Media in all its forms on ourselves and our society; the good, the bad, the ugly – what works, what doesn't work, and why.  You...

About the Podcast Topic:  Join us as we discuss Mark's 36 year career at Xerox and how he assisted with the application of various Lean disciplines over the years and what he's been up to since he "retired" Hosts: Joseph Paris , Founder of the OpEx Society  & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor ,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant,  and Chief Executive of the Public Service Transformati...

About the Podcast Topic:  What do charities, companies, public sector bodies and management consultants have in common? No, that's not the start of a joke. In this podcast, JP and Benjamin are joined by charity sector specialist Richard Sved to talk formative experiences, responding to rejection, cures for insomnia and the worst football related pun you'll ever have heard. Hosts: Joseph Paris , Fo...

Topic:  A Capitalist, a Socialist, and a Communist walk into a podcast.  No, it's not the start of a bad joke, just a bad podcast.  Malcolm Cawood, owner of Kyberntica, joins Antlerboy and JP to discuss his ideas behind "systems thinking".  He certainly will share his fairly well developed sense of his own self-importance.  But, as an ultra-sceptic influenced both by scientific tradition, Greek st...

About the Podcast Topic:  Join Ben and Joe with their special guest Brian Hunt as they discuss business process tangles and how to un-tangle them. Hosts: Joseph Paris , Founder of the OpEx Society  & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor ,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant,  and Chief Executive of the Public Service Transformation Academy . Guest: Brian Hunt About Brian:  As organisation...

About the Podcast Topic:  Luca Willington has been in a position where she had to take a different perspective many times - as one of the first yogis in post-communist Romania, as an entrepreneur successfully breaking into the multi-billion international skin-care industry with natural, un-emulsified products, and also as a new arrival in Britain back in 1999. Perhaps it's unsurprising, then, that...

About the Podcast Topic:  Joins us as we discuss ogive curves and how to make them positive, " The 60 Seconds of Joy ", and the Plus Plus Dash with Joy Baldridge Hosts: Joseph Paris , Founder of the OpEx Society  & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor ,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant,  and Chief Executive of the Public Service Transformation Academy . Guest: Joy Baldridge About Joy: ...

Topic:   A Canadian with a store called, Uncle Sam's  and an ambidextrous artist known for her "Cool People" walk into a bar. Neither drink - but alas drink in LIFE! Together, they meet to discuss their downtown, New York City take-over. Richard, the mayor of 8th Street joins Storm, the new creative innovator on the block. Both with history of dreaming and executing, the natural-born entrepreneurs...

About the Podcast Topic: We were pleased to have Dino Marsili speak to us at today's Episode #24 of the Outliers Inn. Dino is a Certified Master Black Belt at Cisco Systems. In fact, he is the first ever Cisco Certified Master Black Belt. His predecessors are all recognized Master Black Belts from other companies. It took Dino just under 18 months to complete the Master Black Belt certification jo...

Topic: Linus, Sheepddog, Rumplestiltskin, Time Bandits, Musk Ox, Dragonfly, Autolycus. Not secret code, and not the usual macho names for military strategies. In fact, these are some of the 80 'patterns of strategy', in the book by the same name from Patrick Hoverstadt and Lucy Loh, together Fractal Consulting. They discuss how the whole field of approaches business strategy are lacking, and how t...

About the Podcast Topic: Our guest this week is Gem Holmes, no longer a hidden "Gem" but a public speaker and organisational change leader, who shares a love of Primitivo with JP and a change leader in Northgate plc. A natural born leader with a drive to deliver 'excellence'.  Change & transformation has a high failure rate, often created due to resistance from individuals in an organisation. We t...

About the Podcast Topic:  The guest for this episode is Russell Gundry, who tries to argue with Antlerboy and JP that Operational Excellence is all wrong. The trouble is they end up agreeing, mostly. We discuss how operational excellence can be misguided to solving the wrong problems, and the importance of getting into the murk of considering problems in context. Our journey ranges from impassione...

Topic: In this rare 'hostly' episode, Antlerboy finally gets a microphone that works, and he and JP decide that it's about time they found out a bit more about each others' live and, more importantly, Operational Excellence backgrounds. Two old farts reminiscing on a park bench, sure- but for insights into what it takes to build a consultancy, how to achieve 'escape velocity', become a valued keyn...

About the Podcast Topic: In this rare 'hostly' episode, Antlerboy finally gets a microphone that works, and he and JP decide that it's about time they found out a bit more about each others' live and, more importantly, Operational Excellence backgrounds. Two old farts reminiscing on a park bench, sure- but for insights into what it takes to build a consultancy, how to achieve 'escape velocity', be...

About the Podcast Topic:   Join Antlerboy and JP as they speak with Gia Campari about business leadership. Hosts: Joseph Paris , Founder of the OpEx Society  & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor ,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant . Guests:  Gia Campari About Gia : Gia held executive positions in Marketing and Business Development before joining a major consultancy nineteen years ago....

About the Podcast Topic:  Who changes the change? Are we in a radical new era of thinking about organisations, or is it plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose?  Are we any better now at managing organisations - and managing change and transformation - than we were forty years ago? Or should we just stop stuffing it up? The boys chew the fat... Hosts: Joseph Paris , Founder of the OpEx Society  &...

About the Podcast Topic: Every day we read about finance and doing mega-deals, but what about finance for the average business owner?  Most start-ups rely on credit-cards, but did you know there are avenues other than credit-cards?  For instance, consider the valuable, yet obscure, role that pawn-shops might play – beyond "Pawn Stars".  And then there are the nuances of engaging in finance in diff...

Topic: Lean Six Sigma - Join us as we discuss how to deliver operational excellence from the shop floor all the way up to management. Hosts: Joseph Paris , Founder of the OpEx Society  & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor ,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant . Guests:  Kevin Corrigan - Red Quadrant [caption id="attachment_264" align="alignnone" width="200"] Kevin Corrigan[/caption] Abo...

About the Podcast Topic: Logistics, what's it all about?  It's a lot more than that dusty warehouse scene at the end of Raiders Of The Lost Ark.  Join us as we talk about warehouse management, supply chain management, transportation and library stock management. Hosts: Joseph Paris , Founder of the OpEx Society  & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor ,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant...

About the Podcast Topic:   Join Antlerboy and JP as they speak with Phil Gerbyshak, an expert in communications.  Listen to the lively discussions on the critical importance of efficient and effective communication that is necessary for being a successful leader.  Listen to the importance of everyone knowing that they represent the brand of the company were they employed, always, and that maintain...