Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - (Page 40) | 02/09 Compressed Air Industry POWER PLANTS | PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY 2. It’s about throughput not input. Laying out an aggressive agenda sounds good to senior managers, shareholders and Wall Street, but ultimately it’s what comes out the end of the pipe that matters, not what you cram into the front of it. The rank-and-file — those chartered to interpret the strategy and take action — look at broad, sweeping strategic plans with rolled eyes and deep sighs of dejection. When the corporation concentrates on creating fancy strategic plans — leveraging high-priced outside consultants, spending time on executive offsites and assembling impressive looking SWOT charts — the practical issue of individual capacity is left on the sideline. Imagine a doctor in the ER looking strategically at a trauma victim. Examining the patient the doctor thinks to herself, “I need to set that arm, stabilize the blood pressure, stop the bleeding in the chest, keep the airway clear, ensure the patient is on a good nutrition program, takes a daily multi-vitamin, gets started on a smoking cessation program and enrolls in an anger management counseling.” This approach to medical care would lead to disastrous results. Instead the doctor pays attention to the most critical element of treatment and solves that first. Once stabilized, attention is allocated to the next priority. In business, too many strategic plans take a “kitchen sink” approach to the business priorities, ensuring that a little bit of everything gets done but nothing gets completely done. The most important question in the strategic plan: “Can we do all of this, and if we can, what do we do first?” 40 www.airbestpractices.com http://www.airbestpractices.com
Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 Contents From the Editor Utility-Air News Compressed Air Audit of the Month Air Standards Instrument Air in Nuclear Power Plants Seven Sustainability Projects for Industrial Energy Savings The Pneumatic Advantage Personal Productivity Resources for Energy Engineers Wall Street Watch Advertiser Index Classifieds Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - (Page Intro) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 (Page Cover1) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 (Page Cover2) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 (Page 3) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Contents (Page 4) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - From the Editor (Page 5) Compressed Air Best Practices - 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February 2009 - Seven Sustainability Projects for Industrial Energy Savings (Page 30) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Seven Sustainability Projects for Industrial Energy Savings (Page 31) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Seven Sustainability Projects for Industrial Energy Savings (Page 32) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Seven Sustainability Projects for Industrial Energy Savings (Page 33) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - The Pneumatic Advantage (Page 34) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - The Pneumatic Advantage (Page 35) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - The Pneumatic Advantage (Page 36) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - The Pneumatic Advantage (Page 37) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - The Pneumatic Advantage (Page 38) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Personal Productivity (Page 39) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Personal Productivity (Page 40) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Personal Productivity (Page 41) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Resources for Energy Engineers (Page 42) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Resources for Energy Engineers (Page 43) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Resources for Energy Engineers (Page 44) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Resources for Energy Engineers (Page 45) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Wall Street Watch (Page 46) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Wall Street Watch (Page 47) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Wall Street Watch (Page 48) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Advertiser Index (Page 49) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Classifieds (Page 50) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Classifieds (Page Cover3) Compressed Air Best Practices - February 2009 - Classifieds (Page Cover4)
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