Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
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1,523 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Jul
Jaime Hoerricks, PhD’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because a lot of management theory seems to suggest that the CEO just thinks big thoughts and middle management handles the messy execution.
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But the stark reality is what?
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Which are strategy, operations, and people.
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And the sources actually have this brilliant anecdote about Larry Bossity visiting a honeywell sensor plant in Freeport, Illinois.
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It totally shatters that mountaintop myth.
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Right.
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He sits down with the plant manager and actually starts dissecting the workflow.
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And he notices immediately that the quality control staff reports directly to the manufacturing staff.
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Fox guarding the chicken coop.
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And he kept digging too.
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He analyzed their footprint and told them flat out, you have a $600 million business spread across nine plants.
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You are bleeding capital.
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But simultaneously, he didn't just criticize them.
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He actively praised their grassroots Six Sigma program.
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Nobody likes being told how to work from corporate.
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And former GE CEO Jack Welsh did the exact same thing.
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He heard American Standard was massively increasing their inventory turns, but he didn't ask an analyst to write a white paper about it.
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Right.
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Welch personally went to dinner with American Standard CEO Emmanuel Camporas.
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And he deliberately seated himself between two plant managers.
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