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Lessons In Leadership For Managers And Supervisors: Fearless And Ferocious Managing, Anthony J. Jackson Prof Apr 2017

Lessons In Leadership For Managers And Supervisors: Fearless And Ferocious Managing, Anthony J. Jackson Prof

Anthony J Jackson Prof

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Adopting Change Initiatives During Economic Downturns, Anthony J. Jackson Prof Sep 2015

Adopting Change Initiatives During Economic Downturns, Anthony J. Jackson Prof

Anthony J Jackson Prof

Change initiatives is a popular approach to eliminate waste and increase profits with a more efficient approach to productivity. Developed by Motorola it now has spread world wide with the more popular Toyota Production System (TPS) to Trumpf with its Synchro Production System, Healthcare, and Small Business Enterprises (SME’s). Many companies have claimed benefits from change initiative implementation with some failures. This paper reviews the critical success factors and change projects and what the companies did to be successful..


Military Management: New Trend For Small Business, Anthony J. Jackson Prof Sep 2015

Military Management: New Trend For Small Business, Anthony J. Jackson Prof

Anthony J Jackson Prof

With so many veterans returning from war and to jobs they left, be it management, senior management positions, or business owners the military touts the veteran’s ability to lead a organization


If Experience And Training In Distribution Centers Is So Bad, Why Don't, Anthony J. Jackson Prof Apr 2014

If Experience And Training In Distribution Centers Is So Bad, Why Don't, Anthony J. Jackson Prof

Anthony J Jackson Prof

Warehouses and distribution centers focus a lot of attention on management training they look for the brightest, talented, and most experienced person available. Yet when it comes to hiring the staff of people who are actually going to do the work they obtain someone with minimal education and work experience. Most companies hire hourly workers who may have been to several companies in past and assimilate them into their organization immediately and getting familiar with operation as they go along or in some cases not at all.


Lean Manufacturing Initiatives, Anthony J. Jackson Prof Sep 2011

Lean Manufacturing Initiatives, Anthony J. Jackson Prof

Anthony J Jackson Prof

The purpose of this research study is to analyze the factors that prevent small and medium size enterprises from implementing lean manufacturing processes and show, that by not implementing lean they are missing out on savings, efficient workforce, and new markets in the globalization arena. Globalization offers opportunities that have not been realized by SME’s yet still pose challenges and barriers that can be overcome by adoption and implementation of lean manufacturing.