Dr. Tom DePaoli’s Eight Business Books
Summaries Available on Amazon
In Common Sense Purchasing Dr. Tom DePaoli reveals
many of his tales and lessons learned on his journeys in various purchasing
organizations and companies. His keen insights into relationships and what
really counts in purchasing will astound and entertain both purchasing and
non-purchasing professionals. His admission that he has made just about every
mistake possible to be made in purchasing just adds to his credibility and his
ability to teach the hard knock lessons that he learned. He hopes that his insights will perhaps
cushion the hard knocks for those willing to practice common sense judgments.
One of the top 5 purchasing books other
organizations. Available on Amazon
Use common sense in purchasing. #purchasing #procurement #supplychain
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Common Sense Supply
Management’s author Thomas DePaoli offers
no-nonsense strategies learned from his diverse career in many organizations.
Told in part via a story format, Common
Sense Supply Management uses real life examples to discuss what goes
right, and often wrong, in the supply chain management trenches. The stories are told factually without any
embellishment. By following this book’s accounts, supply chain professionals
can learn a career’s worth of what to do and what not to do. DePaoli provides
practical lessons launched from real-life cases and tested in the unforgiving
supply chain management reality. Available on Amazon
Get Common Sense in your supply chain. #supplycahin
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In Broken Windows Management for Business,
a lot of broken windows management is learning by doing. There is ample room
for creativity and having fun with broken windows management. Broken windows
management is a journey not a quick fix. It remains one of the most viable and
practical ways to achieve quality of work life improvement. Dr. Tom DePaoli, the author, relates some for the principles of 5S and the
kaizen methodology to the broken windows management approach. Broken Windows Management for Business uses
real life examples to discuss what goes right in the broken windows management
trenches. It
never ceases to amaze me that many organizations waste money on high priced
team-building consultants and exercises to improve team work. If an
organization does not have the trust of their employees or treat them well, no
amount of wilderness adventures or zip-lining will build team work. Integrity
is the first rule of teamwork. The military is so successful in team building
because of the clear mission and the fact that soldiers know that their lives
may depend on their teammates. The team often is very close for long periods of
time. You must adapt to your teammates. Many of their leaders are committed to
honor and commitment. Available on
Amazon
Improve employee morale. #empowerment #businessbooks
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In Kaizen Kreativity (Oops!) author Dr. Tom DePaoli offers an
entertaining and creative approach to improving work design and work processes.
He uses a variety of techniques including story-telling, imaginative training
exercises and ready to go outlines of PowerPoints on Kaizens. He recalls the times when he stumbled, when
trying to implement Kaizen events. It is a good desktop guide to Kaizens with great
information on how to organize for a kaizen. It is a practical book. He shows
that just using a few Kaizen tools can result in great gains. The book will
help the novice and the experienced Kaizen leader. Available
on Amazon
Run kaizens. Have fun. #kaizens #businessbooks.
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You can learn to be a
dynamic and authentic leader by storytelling Dr. Tom DePaoli insists in his new
book Leadership by
Storytelling: The Best Way to Learn Good Leadership Principles Dr. Tom uses stories that are genuine from his
own and others careers. Dr. Tom has diverse experiences with leaders in
corporate, non-profit, academic and military organizations. As a consultant, he
conducted extensive group and personal training on leadership skills. He has
over 1000 hours of formal leadership training and teaches leadership courses at
the graduate level. He strongly believes that the growth in leadership
abilities will be much greater with the use of storytelling. Available on Amazon
The book includes:
Principles and practices of great leadership.
Compelling stories of these leadership principles in action.
Reinforcing illustrations of the principles.
Tips on how to tell the leadership stories.
How to develop trust with your followers and employees.
Lead by stories be
authentic. #leadership
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Avoiding a Supply Chain
Apocalypse!
Purchasing and supply chain professionals, here is an alternative approach to
becoming a Supply Chain Doomsday Prepper for a Supply Chain Apocalypse! In his
creative guide Avoiding a Supply Chain Apocalypse - the Best of Dr. Tom, Dr.
Tom DePaoli offers practical strategies and tactics, learned and tested from
his purchasing and supply chain career. He does not recommend a single silver
bullet or quick fix, but suggests a multi-faceted diverse approach to avoiding
supply chain meltdowns. DePaoli challenges the reader to survey his best
writings and to select what fits their particular organizational cultures.
There is no one size fits all in the supply chain. As the importance of supply
chain management grows leaps and bounds; the supply chain professional must
develop multiple options and proficient tactics to ensure the continuity of the
supply chain. Of particular importance is "Purchasing is the art of
building relationships. It is not about negotiations, transactions, industry
knowledge, market knowledge, know-how or technology. It is all about building
strong relationships and gaining the trust of suppliers, customers, and
colleagues. There is no easy way to get employees to trust you. One of things
that I've always done is to make sure that I do what I told them I was going to
do. Nothing impresses employees more than keeping your word. Another good
tactic to use is to always admit your mistakes and do not try to cover them up.
Employees appreciate when you invest the time and effort to train them. Make sure
you have a training plan for all of your employees. Try to behave ethically,
employees expect you to lead by example and to live by your word. Communicate
to them daily if possible, in use as many different channels of communication
as you can. "The fact is that purchasing also runs its own Research and
Development (R&D) department. Suppliers, in collaboration with purchasing,
are perhaps the most cost-effective R&D function in a company. Jointly they
often come up with leaps in technology and transformations in products. When
they cooperate, they can transform a company and its products. Breakthroughs
that occur via this method should receive as much publicity if not more than
those developed internally! In summary getting purchasing valued for its great
contribution to revenue; requires both a bottom-up and top-down approach.
Empower as many employees as possible to participate in purchasing and solicit
their ideas and suggestions. Set up one-on-one executive exchanges with your
supplier executives. Finally, systematically create a strong marketing plan to
communicate your successes. “The book serves as a guide for the purchasing or
supply chain professional to optimize their supply chain and avoid disaster. Available
on Amazon
Risk assess your supply chain. #supplymanagement
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Jayson and the
Corporate Argonauts - the Quest for the Golden Fleece of Transformation is a clever, well-illustrated and brief business fable! The
book follows the adventures of the Greek hero Jason and his Argonauts. Dr. Tom
DePaoli, the author, uses the lessons learned from this epic voyage and
examines how the Argonauts overcome the perils. He then recommends strategies
for modern day Corporate Argonauts trying to radically transform their own
organization. Available on Amazon
Business fable of the ages. Transform your company. #transformation
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Have you endured awful leaders in your career?
Dr. Tom DePaoli sure has. In his new book Boogeyman Leadership:
How to Turn Your Employees into Listless Zombies, he showcases poor
leaders and their tactics that inevitably failed. Dr. Tom believes it is very
important to know what does not work first, so that an aspiring good leader
does not waste time on such approaches. He does not pretend to offer any silver
bullet solutions to these poor policies. Boogeyman Leadership recounts many bad
leadership ideas and illustrative stories to make sure the reader crosses these
schemes off their leadership list. The book is not a solemn academic book or a
guide to great leadership success. Its purpose is to give examples of terrible
leadership and management tactics that Dr. Tom and others have experienced in
their careers. Dr. Tom urges the reader not to use them or support them. Dr.
Tom has had careers in business, the military and academia. All these arenas
had some terrible leaders that he had to endure. Available on Amazon.
Fight Dark Leaders. #leadership
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