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Author Archives: John Hunter
Productivity Improvement for Entrepreneurs (and Everybody Else Really)
The 3 Factors That are Limiting Your Productivity [the broken link has been removed] by Evan Carmichael Elimination is at the core of every successful business. You have to focus on what you’re really good [at], what drives your business … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Management, Process improvement, Systems thinking
Tagged Career, coaching, entrepreneur, leadership, management, Process improvement, productivity, Systems thinking, waste
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Management Improvement Carnival #125
The Curious Cat Management Blog Carnival selects recent management blog posts 3 times each month. You may submit a link to the management Reddit to have it considered for inclusion in our carnival. More photos from Cypress Gardens, South Carolina. … Continue reading
Learn by Seeking Knowledge – Not Just from Mistakes
Being open to new ideas and new knowledge is what is needed to learn. Experimenting, seeking out new knowledge is even better. You can be successful and see an even better way to do things and learn from it. This … Continue reading
Warren Buffett’s 2010 Letter to Shareholders
Warren Buffett has published his always excellent annual shareholder letter. His letters, provide excellent investing insight and good management ideas. Yearly figures, it should be noted, are neither to be ignored nor viewed as all-important. The pace of the earth’s … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Investing, Management
Tagged evidence based management, Investing, management, Psychology, Systems thinking, Warren Buffett
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Management Improvement Carnival #124
The management blog carnival is published 3 times a month with select recent management blog posts. Also try Curious Cat Management Articles for online management improvement articles. Jerry Seinfeld’s Productivity Secret by Brad Isaac – “Think for a moment about … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Lean thinking, Management
Tagged Carnival, Lean thinking, management
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Nigel Marsh: How to Make Work-Life Balance Work
“I want you to pause for a minute, you wretched weaklings, and take stock of your miserable existence.” Nigel Marsh paraphrasing (or quoting, I can’t find the source though) the advice that Saint Benedict gave his startled followers. I wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Psychology, Systems thinking
Tagged problem solving, Psychology, Systems thinking
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Management Improvement Carnival #123
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 Improvement guide since 1996 (lean manufacturing, Deming, agile software … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged management, Systems thinking
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Management Improvement Carnival #122
The management blog carnival is published 3 times a month with select recent management blog posts. Since 2006 the carnival has focused on finding interesting posts for managers on improving the performance of organizations (lean manufacturing, Deming, agile software development, … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
Tagged Carnival, management
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Management Improvement Carnival #121
This edition of the Management Improvement Carnival is #121 (editions 119 and 120 were the annual 2010 blog reviews part 1 and part 2). Also try Curious Cat Management Articles for online management improvement articles: you can subscribe to an … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
Tagged Lean thinking, management
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Assigning Story Points to Bug Fixes
Agile software development has teams estimate the effort to deliver requests from the product owner. The estimates are done in points (in order to abstract away from hours – as estimates have plenty of variation in how long they will … Continue reading
