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Category Archives: Management
Hiring the Right People
The job market is an inefficient market. There are many reasons for this including relying on specification (this job requires a BS in Computer Science – no Bill Gates you don’t meet the spec) instead of understanding the system. Insisting … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Customer focus, IT, Management, Performance Appraisal, Popular
Tagged Career, curiouscat, Deming, hiring, management, managing people, Popular
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Google Shifts Focus
It appears Google has decided it is time to put more resources into improving their many existing products (Gmail, News, Video, Maps, Picassa, Spreadsheets, Checkout, GoogleTalk, AdSense for Radio, GoogleReader, BlogSearch, GoogleGroups,…). That makes sense to me. When Google had … Continue reading
Posted in Google, IT, Management, Software Development, Systems thinking
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Not Innovation but Still Interesting
10 years of the most innovative ideas in business in not packed with ideas on innovation: it was obviously titled by someone hoping to catch the interest of those following the innovation fad. Still it has interesting stories originally published … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Innovation, Management
Tagged Books, Innovation, Management, Management Articles
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More on Overpaid CEO’s
CEO pay up big – but not performance: The Corporate Library analyzed the compensation of nearly 1,400 chiefs for its annual report on CEO pay. The group’s median total compensation rose 16 percent between 2004 and 2005. A year earlier, … Continue reading
Posted in Management
Tagged deadly diseases, executive pay, Management, overpaid executives
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Evidence-based Management
Bob Sutton’s writing includes the excellent article “Management Advice: Which 90% is Crap?” (which we discussed in: Management Advice Failures) and the Knowing Doing Gap. I just discovered his blog today which is quite good: Work Matters. A recent post includes some good advice on data and process improvement Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Data, Deming, Health care, Management, Process improvement
Tagged economic data, evidence based management, Management
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The State of Lean Implementation
Interesting survey by the Lean Enterprise Institute notes the following as the major obstacles to transforming to a lean organization. 1 Lack of implementation know-how: 48% 2 Backsliding to the old ways of working: 48% 3 Middle management resistance: 40% … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Management
Tagged evidence based management, Lean thinking, Management
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Why Pay Taxes or be Honest
This kind of stuff makes me mad. I was taught about robber barons in school (or actually I think by my uncle but…). And what I was taught was that business used to be seen as an amoral area. But … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Management, Psychology
Tagged business, ethics, government, leadership, Psychology, society
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Lean is Harmony
In Mike Wroblewski’s capstone, to his posts on his tour of lean manufacturing in Japan, he states: My lean manufacturing epiphany is quite simple, LEAN IS HARMONY. … The lean principles are helping us develop and promote harmony by removing … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Lean thinking, Management, Six sigma, Systems thinking
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Meeting Like Google
How to Run a Meeting Like Google [the broken link was removed], offers good advice like agendas distributed ahead of time, having a note taker… Instead, she encourages such comments as “The experimentation on the site shows that his design … Continue reading
Leaving Quality Behind – Again No
Is PAT Leaving Quality Behind? [the broken link was removed] The intent of PAT was to advocate a more scientific and methodical approach to product development, scale-up and production. The impact of PAT will be felt in all sectors of … Continue reading
Posted in Health care, Management, Process improvement
Tagged Management, quality, Quality tools
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