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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Global Manufacturing Data 2007
The updated data from the United Nations on manufacturing output by country clearly shows the USA remains by far the largest manufacturer in the world. UN Data, in billions of current US dollars: Country 1990 1995 2000 2005 2006 2007 … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Economics, India, Manufacturing, quote
Tagged Asia, China, curiouscat, economic data, Europe, Germany, India, Japan, Manufacturing, UK, USA
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Management Blog Posts From October 2005
Box on Quality – Read articles by George Box on quality management principles (SPC, Deming, process improvement, six sigma, etc.). An except from the book provides a table of contents and an introduction. The photos shows George Box and Bill … Continue reading
Posted in Management
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Get Rid of the Performance Review
Get Rid of the Performance Review! by Samuel Culbert To make my case, I offer seven reasons why I find performance reviews ill-advised and bogus. … Inevitably reviews are political and subjective, and create schisms in boss-employee relationships. The link … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Performance Appraisal
Tagged Deming, management, Performance Appraisal
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The Software Engineering Manager’s Lament
The engineering manager’s lament by Eric Ries: In teams that follow the “pick two” agenda [quality, time or price], which two has to be resolved via a power play. In companies with a strong engineering culture, the engineers pick quality. … Continue reading
Posted in IT, Management, Software Development, Systems thinking
Tagged engineering, Lean thinking, management, Software Development, Systems thinking
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CEOs Plundering Corporate Coffers
Pointy haired bosses broke the code they provided on their site for embedding a Dilbert comic, so I removed the broken code. Dogbert: “I am stepping down as CEO so I can spend more time with the money I stole … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged commentary, ethics, executive pay, Management, overpaid executives
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Flaws in Understanding Psychology Lead to Flawed Management
I people are self interested and somewhat rational. However, self interest, is complex. People want to be liked, people want to be part of something good, people want to feel they are appreciated… Continue reading
Posted in Management, Psychology, Respect
Tagged commentary, curiouscat, Deming, John Hunter, Psychology, quote, respect for people
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Six Sigma v. Common Sense
Response to LinkedIn question [the broken link was removed]: “Whether Six Sigma as a quality tool really delivers the benefits ? How does it makes difference from a common sense approach ? (Where the process wastes and the required solution … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Quality tools, quote, Six sigma
Tagged commentary, curiouscat, John Hunter, Quality tools, quote, Six sigma, Systems thinking
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National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Armand V. Feigenbaum received the 2007 National Medal of and Technology and Innovation for his leadership in the development of the economic relationship of quality costs, productivity improvement, and profitability, and for his pioneering application of economics, general systems theory … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management
Tagged awards, Deming, management, TQM
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Management Improvement Carnival #45
Read the previous management carnivals. Also see the management Reddit for popular new blog posts to include in future carnivals. Hire them, fire them, do what you want with them by Jay Padinjaredath – “A quote from Deming: “In Japan … Continue reading
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Tagged Carnival, extrinsic motivation, management, Process improvement, Quality tools
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Appropriate Management
Thinking about why appropriate technology is so effective, but underutilized (though things are much better now than they were several decades ago) can help anyone improve the solutions they adopt. I would especially encourage people to stop looking for the newest management book and actually read and adopt and re-read adopt… the excellent management books from the last 50 years Continue reading →