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Tag Archives: management
Management Improvement Blog Carnival #157
The Curious Cat management blog carnival is published 3 times a month with hand picked recent management blog posts. I also collect management improvement articles for the Curious Cat Management Articles site; you can subscribe via RSS for new article … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
Tagged Carnival, John Hunter, management
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Management Improvement Blog Carnival #156
The Curious Cat Management blog carnival highlights recent management blog posts 3 times each month. The posts generally focus on the areas I have focused on in the Curious Cat Management Guide since 1996 (Deming, evidence based management, lean manufacturing, … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
Tagged agile management, management, project management, Software Development
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We are Being Ruined by the Best Efforts of People Who are Doing the Wrong Thing
Deming’s Second Theorem: “We are being ruined by best efforts.” What did Dr. Deming mean by this? Another quote by Dr. Deming might give you a clue? “Best efforts will not substitute for knowledge.” Irwin, the porcupine at the Animal … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Psychology, Systems thinking
Tagged Deming, Fun, management, Psychology, Systems thinking, theory of knowledge
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Management Improvement Blog Carnival #155
The Curious Cat management blog carnival is published 3 times a month with hand picked recent management blog posts. I also collect select management improvement articles and blog posts in the Curious Cat management article library. The annual management blog … Continue reading
2011 Management Blog Roundup Completed
The 2011 Management Blog Roundup has been completed. I hope you enjoyed it and learned from the great posts highlighted by all the participants in this effort. The final group of posts to be added are: Mark Hamel at Gemba … Continue reading
More 2011 Management Blog Roundup Posts Added
As we start 2012, the 4th Annual Management Blog Roundup continues. Once again some of the most popular management bloggers are taking a look back at the last year in the management blogging world. The following reviews have been added … Continue reading
Newly Added 2011 Management Blog Roundup Posts
The 4th Annual Management Blog Roundup is making good progress. It is wonderful how many great blogs there are to chose from. Even with us covering 40 management blogs there are many more great management blogs we didn’t include. The … Continue reading
Eliminate the Waste of Waiting in Line with Queuing Theory
One thing that frustrates me is how managers fail to adopt proven strategies for decades. One very obvious example is using queuing theory to setup lines. Yes it may be even better to adopt strategies to eliminate as much waiting … Continue reading
4th Annual Management Blog Roundup
The Curious Cat Management blog carnival highlights recent management blog posts 3 times each month. This is the 4th year that the normal rhythm is being broken to review the past year in management blogging. From now until January 12th … Continue reading
Why Use Lean if So Many Fail To Do So Effectively
If less than 1% of companies are successful with Lean, why are we doing it? Lots of us are not. I would say the efforts I see “fail” are because they don’t do it. They have something they call TQM, … Continue reading →