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Author Archives: John Hunter
Respect for People: Optimize for Developer Happiness at Etsy
The webcast above discusses the culture of software engineering at Etsy (a very popular site providing a marketplace and community for small businesses – artisan focus). Some of the key points of the talk. Etsy trusts employees. Etsy’s strategy is … Continue reading
Posted in IT, Psychology, Respect, Software Development
Tagged culture, engineering, IT, Joy in Work, managing people, Psychology, respect for people, Software Development, teams, trust
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Management Improvement Blog Carnival #162
The Curious Cat management blog carnival is published 3 times a month with hand picked recent management blog posts. I also collect management improvement articles for the Curious Cat Management Articles site; an RSS feed of new article additions is … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
Tagged management, Six sigma
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Continual Feeding
I like growing things. I think it is part the connection to system thinking I have had since I was a kid. I like finding ways to leverage my effort so that I put in a bit of thought and … Continue reading
Posted in Investing, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged build capacity, coaching, John Hunter, managing people, Systems thinking
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Management Improvement Blog Carnival #161
Nicole Radziwill is hosting Management Improvement Blog Carnival #161. Highlights from this edition include: The Odds of Finding a Four-Leaf Clover Coffee Shop Buzz is Good for Your Creativity One Year after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Make sure you check … Continue reading
Selling Quality Improvement
In this month’s ASQ influential quality voices post, Paul Borawski asks How Do You “Sell” Quality? I am amazed how difficult it is to sell quality improvement. I look at organizations I interact with and easily see systemic failures due … Continue reading
Massively Unjust Executive Compensation Damages Companies and Investments
For years I have believed the massively unjust executive compensation packages have been doing great harm to American businesses. As an investor, one of the big risks that has to be evaluated is how much of the business profits executives … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Respect
Tagged bonus, Deming, ethics, executive pay, incentives, Investing, motivation, overpaid executives, respect for people
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Management Improvement Blog Carnival #160
The Curious Cat Management blog carnival highlights recent management blog posts 3 times each month. The posts generally focus on the areas I have focused on in the Curious Cat Management Guide since 1996 (Deming, innovation, lean manufacturing, customer focus, … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Lean thinking
Tagged Lean thinking, management, Software Development
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Engineering Management Thoughts Based on Facebook Experience
Yishan Wong is the new CEO at Reddit, an excellent social media site I have written about previously. In looking at his background I found some interesting articles he wrote on engineering management based on his experience at Facebook engineering. … Continue reading
Keys to the Effective Use of the PDSA Improvement Cycle
The PDSA improvement cycle was created by Walter Shewhart where Dr. Deming learned about it. An improvement process is now part of many management improvement methods (A3 for lean manufacturing, DMAIC for six sigma and many other modifications). They are … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Deming, Management, Popular, Process improvement, Quality tools, quote, Systems thinking
Tagged continual improvement, curiouscat, Data, Deming, experiments, management, PDSA, Popular, Process improvement, Quality tools, quote
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How Could They Know?
I am a big fan of Dr. Deming’s ideas on management. The way I see one of the quotes of Dr. Deming used I don’t agree with. Dr. Deming said “How could they know?” to explain why people continued to … Continue reading →