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Author Archives: John Hunter
Management Improvement Carnival #66
The Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival began in 2006 with the goal to provide links to interesting blog posts for those interesting in improving the practice of management. Jidoka is not just “built-in-quality” by Jason Yip – “Jidoka is not … Continue reading
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Tagged blogs, Carnival, management
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Penske to Buy Saturn from GM
Penske to Buy Saturn from GM “When Saturn launched in the 1980s, it was the new, new thing, with the best dealer service and no-haggle pricing that put customers at ease,” said independent marketing consultant Dennis Keene. “But in recent … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Manufacturing
Tagged cars, management, Management Articles, Manufacturing, Systems thinking
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Job Listings Online Filled with Jargon
The job market is not great, 9.4% unemployment in the USA, and not efficient either. At my full time job, we hired a ruby on rails developer (web programmer) this month, and are looking to hire another. Job listings online … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Management, Software Development
Tagged Career, IT, jobs, respect for people, Software Development
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Management Improvement Carnival #65
Checklist for the Agile Manager By Jurgen Appelo. The Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival began in 2006 with the goal to provide links to interesting blog posts for those interesting in improving the practice of management. We now publish the … Continue reading
Pixar Movie Management Magic
Image of Wall-e, from the Pixar film of the same name. Pixar’s secrets on display in ‘Up’ “I think it comes down to two basic things: one is that we’re run by artists. … John Lasseter is a film director, … Continue reading
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Tagged Customer focus, Innovation, Investing, management, respect for people
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CEOs Want Health-Care Reform
Decades ago Dr. Deming emphasized the deadly disease of excessive health care costs in the USA. Since then, year after year, the situation has become worse (reaching $2.2 trillion in spending in 2007 – 16.2% of GDP). During that time … Continue reading
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Tagged Deming, Economics, government, Health care, health care system, leadership
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In-N-Out Burger’s Six Secrets for Success
In-N-Out Burger’s six secrets for out-and-out success [the broken link was removed] Listen to Your Customers — One of the company’s mottos is “Our customer is everything.” Applying that belief led to the company policy of preparing burgers just the … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Customer focus, management, managing people, respect for people
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Google’s Innovative Use of Economics
Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability Google depends on economic principles to hone what has become the search engine of choice for more than 60 percent of all Internet surfers, and the company uses auction theory to grease the … Continue reading
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Management Improvement Carnival #64
Mike Wroblewski is hosting the Management Improvement Carnival #64 on the Got Boondoggle? blog, highlights include: Daily Scrum against the Board by Xavier Quesada Allue-“A good way to know if your team is using their taskboard to really manage their … Continue reading
Warren Buffett Answers Shareholder’s Questions – 2009
Each year Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger answer questions in front of crowds of tens of thousands of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in Omaha, Nebraska. The question and answer sessions provide great wisdom on economics, investing and management. Here are some … Continue reading
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