Author Archives: John Hunter

Management Improvement Articles

Posted on May 10, 2005 by John Hunter

Michael Porter’s Big Ideas by Keith H. Hammonds The world’s most famous business-school professor is fed up with CEOs who claim that the world changes too fast for their companies to have a long-term strategy. If you want to make … Continue reading →

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Traffic Congestion and a Non-Solution

Posted on May 9, 2005 by John Hunter

Topic: Management Improvement, Problem Solving I read, Study: Nation’s Traffic Jams Worsening [the broken link was removed], today on CNN.com. That same headline could have appeared in newspapers every day for the last few years. For decades traffic congestion has … Continue reading →

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Brain Joiner on Dr. Deming

Posted on May 2, 2005 by John Hunter

Topic: Management Improvement The Spring 2005 MAQIN newsletter [link broken, so it was removed] includes an interesting piece on a recent MAQIN event where the life and work of Dr. W. Edwards Deming was celebrated. Dr. Brain Joiner, author of … Continue reading →

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Annual Report by Warren Buffett

Posted on May 1, 2005 by John Hunter

The annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway is being held this weekend in Omaha (cnn article). Recently the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report (by Warren Buffett) was published. The report is excellent reading for anyone interested in investing. Some quotes from … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers – Deming Research Seminar

Posted on April 28, 2005 by John Hunter

Topic: Management Improvement Call for Papers 12th Annual Research Seminar The W. Edwards Deming Institute and Fordham University 13-14 February 2006 New York City Papers that link Dr. Deming’s work to the academic literature or to the works of other … Continue reading →

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10 stocks for 10 years

Posted on April 22, 2005 by John Hunter

Topic: Investment I decided to look at selecting a portfolio of stocks I would be comfortable putting into an IRA for 10 years. My main criteria was companies with a history of large positive cash flow (that seemed likely to … Continue reading →

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Beginning of the End of Housing Bubble?

Posted on April 19, 2005 by John Hunter

Topic: Economics – Investing re: Beginning of the End of Housing Bubble? – Dan Gilmor blog post I doubt we are at the end of the bubble. However, financial bubbles are very difficult to time. My guess is the bubble … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Articles

Posted on April 10, 2005 by John Hunter

Topic: Management – Library Articles Recent additions to the Curious Cat Management Improvement Library include: Six Sigma and Kaizen Compared by Raphael L. Vitalo Deming Retrospective Inputs by Gerry Hahn Bringing Lean Systems Thinking to Six Sigma by Paul Mullenhour … Continue reading →

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Performance without Appraisal

Posted on April 2, 2005 by John Hunter

re: Managing with Trust post from Coding Horror This interesting post includes the quote: “It seems cheap to dispatch [performance reviews] without suggesting some alternative.” Dr. Deming would mention Peter Scholtes thoughts on why performance appraisals were bad management when … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Books

Posted on March 21, 2005 by John Hunter

My recent post on Statistics for Experimenters: Design, Innovation, and Discovery , 2nd Edition reminds me I have not mentioned other good books that have been published recently. Three great books published last year are: Six Sigma Beyond the Factory … Continue reading →

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