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Tag Archives: management
Learn Lean by Doing Lean
In response to: Developing Your Lean Education Plan [the broken link was removed] If you actually let the lean leaders practice lean management you are probably doing more to help them learn than anything else. Reading is great, but 10 … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Education, Lean thinking, Management, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged Career, coaching, curiouscat, Education, John Hunter, Lean thinking, management, managing people, respect for people, Systems thinking, training
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Management Webcast: Introduction to Lean Manufacturing
Webcast introduction to lean manufacturing by Ron Pereira. This is a great 9 minute introduction to the topic, for those not familiar with lean thinking. It sets the context for lean thinking and provides some history on how lean manufacturing … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Lean thinking, Management, Toyota Production System (TPS), webcast
Tagged lean manufacturing, management, management history, management webcast, webcast
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Russell L. Ackoff: 1919 -2009
We lost another of the absolutely best minds in management history, this week. Somehow, many managers, do not know of Russell Ackoff’s ideas. I find that amazing. Dr. Ackoff is one of two management thinkers that any manager, that is … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Innovation, Management, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged Ackoff, Deming, management, respect for people, Systems thinking
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Worker Retention at Zappos
Tony Hsieh, chief executive of Zappos, spoke at a recent y-combinator event (two great organizations we have mentioned before). Facebook and Zappos’s Different Views on Worker Retention “We actually want our employees stay with the company for a long time, … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Deming, Fun, Management, Psychology, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged aim, Creativity, Deming, long term thinking, management, managing people, respect for people
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Management Improvement Carnival #77
The Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival provide links to recent blog posts for those interesting in improving management of organizations. A lesson in strategy, taught by a Cat by Mark Hurst – “Without direction, we’re presenting our flipcharts and our … Continue reading
Five Managerial Fallacies Concerning Layoffs
The Top Five Managerial Fallacies Concerning Layoff Survivors by David Noer, author of Healing the Wounds: Overcoming the Trauma of Layoffs and Revitalizing Downsized Organizations. The overwhelming consensus of downsizing research is that layoffs do not achieve their going in … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Psychology, Respect
Tagged Career, layoffs, management, Psychology, respect for people
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Extrinsic Incentives Kill Creativity
If you read this blog, you know I believe extrinsic motivation is a poor strategy. This TED webcast Dan Pink discusses studies showing extrinsic rewards failing. This is a great webcast, definitely worth 20 minutes of your time. “you’ve got … Continue reading
An Introduction to Deming’s Management Ideas by Peter Scholtes (webcast)
An Introduction to Deming’s Management Teaching and Philosophy by Peter Scholtes – webcast from the Annual W. Edwards Deming Institute conference in Madison, Wisconsin, November 9th, 2008. My previous post on this speech: 6 Leadership Competencies. Next month, the Annual … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, curiouscat.com, Deming, Education, Innovation, Lean thinking, Management, Performance Appraisal, Popular, Process improvement, Psychology, quote, Respect, Science, Systems thinking, webcast
Tagged curiouscat, Deming, Innovation, management, management webcast, Performance Appraisal, Peter Scholtes, Popular, quote, respect for people, Systems thinking, webcast
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The Best Leadership Is Good Management
The Best Leadership Is Good Management [the broken link has been removed] by Henry Mintzberg Let me suggest that you should, because what we’ve been calling a financial crisis is actually one of management. Corporate America has had too much … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Management Articles, Systems thinking
Tagged Books, leadership, management, management experts, Systems thinking
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Dr. Deming Webcast on the 5 Deadly Diseases
The W. Edwards Deming Institute has posted Dr. Deming’s 1984 video on the 5 deadly diseases of western management. Lack of constancy of purpose Emphasis on short term profits – “creative” accounting, focus on quarterly profits Annual Performance Appraisals – … Continue reading