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Author Archives: John Hunter
Management Improvement Carnival #91
The Curious Cat Management Blog Carnival provides links to recent articles to help managers improve the performance of their organization. A Mindless Worker is a Happy Worker “when people are given a chance to participate in creating something good, solving … Continue reading
Improving Software Development with Automated Tests
Automated software testing is a mistake proofing (poka-yoke) solution for software development. The way automated testing works is that software code is written that tests the software code of the application. This automated testing code test that business rules are … Continue reading
Improving Education with Deming’s Ideas
This interview (link broken, so removed) with David Langford discusses how to improve education using ideas from Deming. Along with Alfie Kohn, David have long been the learning and management experts I find most valuable. I have long remembered is … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Deming, Education, Manufacturing
Tagged Creativity, Deming, Education
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Management Improvement Carnival #90
The Curious Cat Management Improvement blog carnival provides links to recent blog posts for those interesting in improving management of organizations. Leader Standard Work Should Be…Work! by Mark Hamel – “A lean leader’s standard work, among other things, may require … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
Tagged blogs, Carnival, management
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Get Rid of the Performance Review
How Much Do You Hate Performance Reviews? by Bob Sutton Deming emphasized that forced rankings and other merit ratings that breed internal competition are bad management because they undermine motivation and breed contempt for management among people who, at least … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Deming, Management, Performance Appraisal
Tagged Books, Deming, management, managing people, Performance Appraisal, respect for people
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, Fulfillment and Flow
“After a certain basic point, which translates, more or less, to just a few thousand dollars above the minimum poverty level, increases in material well being don’t see to affect how happy people are.” The speech includes, the first purpose … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Creativity, Psychology, Respect, webcast
Tagged Books, Creativity, Economics, engineering, intrinsic motivation, Psychology, TED, webcast
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Management Improvement Carnival #89
The Curious Cat Management blog carnival highlights management blog posts 3 times each month. Also visit the Curious Cat Management Library for online management improvement articles. Three Surprises About Change by Chip and Dan Health (this is actually the full … Continue reading
Short Term Investing Focus
Buffett’s New CEO Shows Analysts, Hedge-Fund Managers to Door [the broken link was removed] Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. completed the buyout yesterday after winning the approval of Burlington Northern investors. The deal, valued at $100 a share, allows Rose to … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Investing, Management
Tagged Deming, Investing, long term thinking, management, short term thinking, Warren Buffett
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Management Improvement Carnival #88
Since 2006 the Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival has provided links to interesting blog posts for those interesting in improving the practice of management especially focused on the ideas of Deming, Ohno, Ackoff, Scholtes, McGregor, Womack, Christensen… Putting the Checklist … Continue reading
More Reasons to Avoid Layoffs
Lay Off the Layoffs by Jeffrey Pfeffer As its former head of human resources once told me: “If people are your most important assets, why would you get rid of them?” … In fact, there is a growing body of … Continue reading
