Wayne and MarkI went golfing today with Wayne Zitzloff. Wayne ran a company called Galtec (Gas and Liquid Tech) a subsidiary of Entegris. He also sat on the board of Entegris from 1980 to 1999 (formally Fluoroware).

His company was an innovator in valve fittings and anything/everything else that worked with acids for computer wafers. He understands innovation and is a management genius.

He was telling me today that one of the biggest concerns for the future of wafer encoding is the cleanliness of the environment. It isn’t even micro partials anymore so much as bacteria impurities that they need learn how to deal with.

As we were talking today he shared with me a ton of management principles. I asked him for one new idea that I could begin implementing tomorrow at my church and he gave me this acronym:

O – Objective (What needs to get done)

A – Activity (What are you going to do to get it done)

T- Timetable (When are you going to finish each step)

S – Systematic Checkup (Who is going to check and when)

I loved it! It’s simple and I can’t wait to introduce this tool to my staff.