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Category Archives: Respect
Hire People You Can Trust to Do Their Job
How great companies turn crisis into opportunity The right people don’t need to be managed. The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. The right people don’t think they have a job: They … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Management Articles, Psychology, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged coaching, hiring, jobs, Management Articles, managing people, training
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Jeff Bezos and Root Cause Analysis
Using quality tools really works. Lots of people don’t use them. Improving is often not any more difficult than just applying tools that have been used for decades. Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Quality tools, Respect
Tagged Amazon, Bezos, management experts, Quality tools
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A Programmer’s View of the Universe
A few weeks ago I wrote about integrating information technology and business process management. This post from Steve Yegge is interesting and discusses one reason I find that a good strategy. Programmers, by and large, are good, practical systems thinkers … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Management, Respect, Software Development
Tagged Career, managing people, programming, Psychology, respect for people, Software Development
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Cutting Hours Instead of People
When financial and economic realities reach the point that labor costs must be cut I believe a good option to consider is cutting hours (and pay) instead of people. Continue reading
Posted in Career, Creativity, Deming, Innovation, Management, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged layoffs, management, respect for people
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Creating Customers For Life
Shopping at Trader Joe’s is odd. The workers actually seem like they like that they have customers. Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Management Articles, Popular, Respect
Tagged customer service, Psychology
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Some Firms Cut Costs Without Resorting to Layoffs
Some Firms Cut Costs Without Resorting to Layoffs Hypertherm Inc. has never laid off a permanent employee in its 40-year history. A 20% downturn in sales in recent months led the closely held maker of metal-cutting equipment to eliminate overtime, … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Process improvement, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged Deming, economy, jobs, layoffs, management
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How Private Equity Strangled Mervyns
I do not like the actions of many in “private equity.” I am a big fan of capitalism. I just object to those that unjustly take from the other stakeholders involved. It is not the specific facts of this case, … Continue reading
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Tagged ethics, management, Respect, short term thinking, Systems thinking
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Family Business Gives $6.6 million in Bonuses to Workers
The PEER Bearing Company (a manufacturer of bearings based in Illinois) was bought out by a Swedish company this year. The family that had owned the company gave surprise bonuses of $6.6 million to the 230 employees of the company … Continue reading
Thanksgiving: Micro-financing Entrepreneurs
This is a post from my Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog. For me, giving back to others is part of my personal financial plan. As I have said most people that are actually able to read this are financially … Continue reading
Managing Passionate Employees
Passion vs. Productive There are actually few organizations that can support passionate employees – even if they say they want them. That’s because the original industrial revolution was designed to support productivity. Productivity means you produce. That’s how you’re measured. … Continue reading →