I have been tagged by Mark Graban of the lean blog: “Tag” - 5 Things You Don’t Know About Me.
- I spent a year in Singapore and another in Nigeria while I was growing up.
- Dad, Bill Hunter, was a professor (related to the item above), who co-authored Statistics for Experimenters and applied Deming’s ideas in the Public Sector for the first time. Out of the Crisis pages 245-247 include a write up on that effort with the First Street Garage. Peter Scholtes, at the time worked for the City of Madison, and played a big part in the effort. He went on to write the Team Handbook and The Leader’s Handbook.
- I was on the Wisconsin Badger Basketball camp championship teams in 7th and 8th grade. The second year we played the championship game on the regular Badger Basketball home court. The Badger’s are a bit better now then they were then.
- I have flown on “Air Force One.” Not technically, since it the president was not aboard, but while working for the White House Military Office I flew on the plane on a couple test flights. It is officially “Air Force One” only when the President is flying.
- I spent many Thanksgivings beating John Dower, my father (and other of the family members of both) at Oh Hell. Some might claim I remember more victories today than took place at the time.
John Hunter. The small person is me, the bigger one is Dad.
I tag: Kathleen Fasanella, Mike Wroblewski, Peter Abilla, Karen Wilhelm and John Dowd.
More on Madison’s Quality efforts: Doing More With Less in the Public Sector: A Progress Report from Madison, Wisconsin - Quality in the Community: One City’s Experience
December 21st, 2006 at 8:43 pm
Gosh, I am *so* flattered to have been tagged by Curious Cat! I haven’t been here in awhile, so I really appreciate the update. I’d better check my links for you.
This sounds like fun! Thanks for including me in the fun. Now I have to go and look up the other people you tagged.
Interesting, I didn’t know airforce one wasn’t airforce one unless the pres was aboard. Thanks! Oh boy. I love games.
December 21st, 2006 at 11:37 pm
Blog Tag: 5 Things About Kevin Meyer…
I’ve bar-hopped with The Knack. Back in the early 90’s I lived in Mountain View, CA and I went to see The Knack at the Shoreline Amphitheater……
December 29th, 2006 at 7:51 am
[...] There a blog tag game going around and I’ve been tagged by John Hunter and by Chris Knudsen. This game is somewhat narcissistic, but I’ll play along. Here are five things you probably wish you didn’t know about me: [...]
January 1st, 2007 at 12:33 pm
[...] Several blog authors have participated in the blog tag, including: Mark Graban, Peter Abilla, Kevin Meyer, Jon Miller and me - John Hunter. [...]
January 2nd, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Five questions…
We’re into day two of having comments disabled on the site and it comes at the worst possible time, that being New Year’s and the import of thinking and discussing our first and best steps into it. I’m still slogging……