It is an honor to
lead the team that creates each issue of Uptime magazine. There is a great deal
of research, effort, recruiting, planning, writing, proofing, editing, more
editing, graphic design, artistic layout, deadlines, digitizing and the final
setting of ink to paper that goes into each issue.
The team creates much of its result through integrity -
keeping its' word and honoring its' word by cleaning up any mess when it cannot
keep its' word. In a world of
deadlines and creativity - giving your word with responsibility is a BIG factor
for success.
I have been fortunate to be part of this extraordinary
Uptime team and they continue to teach me by creating a powerful change in the
world through their inspired work. The
team also creates result by working with a laser-like focus on the mission and
vision
You may be surprised to learn that the mission we work to
has nothing to do with magazines or web sites or conferences. Our mission is to
make the people we serve safer and more successful.
Everyone on the Uptime team understands the mission and
everyone works toward its fulfillment. The mission establishes our focus and
our goals. It aims to answer the “what about me” and the “why” of our company
and the work we do. The mission is aimed at being inclusive for everyone the
organization touches in one way or another, even our competitors.
Our vision is to deliver ideas that make a difference in the
areas of maintenance reliability and asset management.
This vision is an open invitation for all the people on our
team, our contributors, our readers, our partners, our sponsors, our
contractors and our suppliers to create ideas and events that correlate and
support its framework.
Speaking our vision out loud creates a possibility to
transform. From the moment it is spoken, the “real world” becomes “possibility”
and barriers to the realization of the vision dissolve. When you speak the
vision that ideas can make a difference in maintenance reliability and asset
management – they do!
Our vision articulates the possibilities for us and we hope
it will for you as well. It does not intend to aim at a point in the future or
the past. It is available now. Our
vision includes you. In fact we invite you to “borrow” our vision.
It is also an honor to serve the audience that reads Uptime
magazine and attend Reliabilityweb.com conferences, especially when they share
stories of how they have used what they learn to make improvements. That is one of our highest purposes.
If you already have a great mission statement or a great
vision, will you please share it with me? I would
love to learn and be inspired by you!
You are invited to read this issue of Uptime cover to cover to
e let us know if we lived up to our mission and if you share our vision as
well.
Warmest regards,
Terrence O'Hanlon, CMRP
CEO/Publisher
