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Tag Archives: Education
Interview of Bill Hunter: Improving Quality and Productivity in Organizations
Interview of William G. Hunter on Improving Quality and Productivity in Organizations by Peter Scholtes. Bill taught a course at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Improving Quality and Productivity in Organizations, which was co-sponsored by the business school, statistics … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Psychology, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged Bill Hunter, Education, learning, Madison, Peter Scholtes, Psychology, respect for people, webcast
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Teaching Students How to Use Better Management Practices
This month Edwin Garro writes about the Quality and Productivity Technical Program for high school students that has been adopted in Costa Rica. 5 high schools joined in the first year and 7 more will join in the next 2 … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged ASQ Influential Voices, Education, quality
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The Education System
The current topic for ASQ Influential Voices to address is the importance of the education system and the impact on the capability of employees. The education system is important and not very good in my opinion. As a kid I … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Public Sector
Tagged ASQ Influential Voices, Education, learning, USA
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ASQ Influential Voices: Future Engineers and Scientists
As I mentioned previously, I will be posting on a topics raised by Paul Borawski, CEO, ASQ as part of ASQ Influential Voices. This month Paul’s post, New Bloggers, STEM & More, looks at the development of future engineers. How … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Science
Tagged ASQ Influential Voices, Education, engineering, quality
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You’ve Got to Find What You Love
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Deming, Education, Fun, Innovation, Psychology, quote
Tagged Career, Creativity, Education, Innovation, inspiration, intrinsic motivation, jobs, Joy in Work, motivation, Psychology, respect for people, Software Development
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Continual Learning
There are several things that destroy your ability to be effective. Thinking you have all the answers (which leads to stopping learning) is probably at the top, along with any other reason for stopping learning (more interested in other things, … Continue reading
A Theory of a System for Educators and Managers
Excerpts from The Deming Library Volume XXI, Dr. W. Edwards Deming, Dr. Russell Ackoff and David Langford demonstrate that educators can begin a quality transformation by developing an understanding of the properties and powers of systems-oriented thinking. You can order … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Deming, Education, Management, quote, Systems thinking, webcast
Tagged Ackoff, curiouscat, Data, Deming, Education, Innovation, learning, management, management webcast, quote, Systems thinking, theory of knowledge, webcast
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Problems With Student Evaluations as Measures of Teacher Performance
Dr. Deming was, among other things a professor. He found the evaluation of professors by students an unimportant (and often counterproductive measure) – used in some places for awards and performance appraisal. He said for such a measure to be … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Education, Performance Appraisal, Psychology, Science
Tagged Customer focus, Data, Deming, Education, experiments, Performance Appraisal, Psychology, Science, system thinking
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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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Lean Manufacturing Simulation (webcast)
This webcast, from the MIT Open Courseware initiative, shows a simulation (with legos). And in doing so explores the advantages of lean manufacturing methods. Related: Red Bead Experiment Webcast – one-piece flow – Applied Quality Engineering Education – The Lean … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Lean thinking, webcast
Tagged Education, lean manufacturing, management webcast, webcasts
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