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Author Archives: John Hunter
6 New Kiva Loans to Manufacturing Entrepreneurs
I have been a big fan of Kiva for quite some time, and have written about it previously: Kiva – Giving Entrepreneurs an Opportunity to Succeed, Thanksgiving: Micro-financing Entrepreneurs. I made 6 new loans today to manufacturing entrepreneurs in the … Continue reading
Posted in Investing, Manufacturing
Tagged entrepreneur, Investing, Manufacturing, respect for people
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Management Improvement Carnival #137
The Curious Cat management blog carnival is published 3 times a month with select recent management blog posts. I also collect management improvement articles through Curious Cat Management Articles, you can subscribe via RSS to new article additions. Photo is … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
Tagged management, teams
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Touring Factories on Vacation When I Was Young
Growing up, occasionally, a family vacation would include a factory tour related to my Dad’s work. He was providing some management or engineering consulting and took the opportunity to check in on progress and visit the gemba. Here is a … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Manufacturing
Tagged Bill Hunter, gemba, John Hunter, Manufacturing, visual management
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Management Improvement Carnival #136
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, leadership, agile software development, lean … Continue reading
Management Improvement Carnival #135
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 (Lean manufacturing, Deming, agile software development, … Continue reading
I Will Co-Facilitate a Deming Seminar in Singapore July 25-27
The W. Edwards Deming Institute is working with the NTUC LearningHub to offer management seminars in Singapore. I will be co-facilitating a Deming 2 1/2 day seminar in Singapore with Kelly Allan in July. The 2 1/2 day Seminar, Deming’s … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Deming, Management
Tagged Career, Deming, John Hunter, learning, management, seminar, Singapore
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Management Improvement Carnival #134
The Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival has been published since 2006. We find great management blog posts and share them with you. We hope you find these post interesting and find some new blogs to start reading. You may submitted … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
Tagged management, Theory of Constraints
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Avoiding Tragedy of the Commons for Software Development
Kanban and Tragedy of the Commons The “Tragedy of the Commons” archetype often manifests itself through “Shared Services”, when a small number of people with specific skills, work across different teams. Each team in isolation gets benefit from the Shared … Continue reading
The aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men
The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not … Continue reading
Management Improvement Carnival #133
The Curious Cat management blog carnival is published 3 times a month with select recent management blog posts. I also collect management improvement articles through Curious Cat Management Articles, you can subscribe via RSS to new article additions. Why I … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
Tagged change, management, productivity
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