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Tag Archives: management
The Public Sector and Deming
In, Public Management-The Bush Administration, Paul Soglin, former Mayor of Madison Wisconsin, quotes one of Deming’s 14 obligations of management: W. Edwards Deming’s point number ten is, “Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the workplace.” In looking for online background … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Public Sector, quote
Tagged Deming, Madison, management, management history, Public Sector, Wisconsin
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Management Lessons from Terry Ryan
Management Lessons from Terry Ryan: Humility, Stability & Personality from Management by Baseball: competitors in any endeavor figure anything easy must not be a very important differentiator (bass-ackwards of course, but the erroneous mental algebra is that if it was … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Innovation, Management, Psychology
Tagged change, Creativity, Innovation, leadership, management, management history, Psychology, workplace improvement
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Joel Management
Topic: Management Improvement, Lean Thinking Joel Spolsky writes the excellent Joel on Software blog and runs Fog Creek Software. Recently he has been writing about process improvement of the order fulfillment process for a movie on the experience of interns … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Process improvement
Tagged IT, Joel Spolsky, management, productivity
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Innovate or “Play it Safe” to Avoid Risk
The Xooglers blog has some really interesting posts. In one, “But, but, that’s just crazy talk!” [the broken link was removed], Doug Edwards discusses a great example of what true leadership is about. In my defense, my background conspired against … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Google, Innovation, Management, quote
Tagged decision making, Innovation, leadership, management, risk
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Toyota Manufacturing Powerhouse
Great required reading [the broken link was removed] via Evolving Excellence, Relentless [the broken link was removed], Detroit News: As Toyota expands rapidly, it is also grappling with a shortage of skilled managers and engineers. When it decided in June … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Management Articles, Manufacturing, Psychology, Respect, Toyota Production System (TPS)
Tagged executive pay, management, Toyota
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Management Improvement Flavors
Lean Manufacturing Visionary Jim Womack On Frontiers Of Lean Thinking [broken link has been removed], webcast and additional questions and answers: Question: For a firm seeking to improve — what comes first? Six Sigma quality or lean implementation? James Womack: … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Lean thinking, Management, Popular, quote, Six sigma, Toyota Production System (TPS)
Tagged curiouscat, Deming, John Hunter, Lean thinking, management, management history, Six sigma, TQM
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Laurence Haughton on Peter Drucker
Laurence Haughton on Peter Drucker [the broken link was removed]: He criticized organizations who issued directives to “cut 5 or 10 percent from budgets across the board.” … And I’ll bet others can find 100 additional quoted and ignored lessons … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Systems thinking
Tagged change, Drucker, leadership, management
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Management Training Program
Fog Creek Software Management Training Program by Joel Spolsky: Finally, when you’re really really good, they let you hang around with Yussef on the ovens. Yussef was about 100 years old and so good at running the ovens it was … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, IT, Management, Popular, quote, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged curiouscat, Education, Joel Spolsky, long term thinking, management, Software Development, training
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Lean Development
Lean Development, by Freddy Ball and Michael Ball. Great article. According to a National Center for Manufacturing Sciences report, Toyota product development projects can take half the time of US equivalents, with four times their productivity (150 product engineers utilised … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Management Articles
Tagged Lean thinking, management
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Performance Without Appraisal
In response to the Alternatives to Stack Ranking? post on the popular Mini-Microsoft blog. I’m also taking some time to contemplate on Deming’s points and assess how Microsoft is doing against them. … What I would deeply appreciate is real-world … Continue reading
