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Tag Archives: Systems thinking
Productivity Improvement for Entrepreneurs (and Everybody Else Really)
The 3 Factors That are Limiting Your Productivity [the broken link has been removed] by Evan Carmichael Elimination is at the core of every successful business. You have to focus on what you’re really good [at], what drives your business … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Management, Process improvement, Systems thinking
Tagged Career, coaching, entrepreneur, leadership, management, Process improvement, productivity, Systems thinking, waste
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Learn by Seeking Knowledge – Not Just from Mistakes
Being open to new ideas and new knowledge is what is needed to learn. Experimenting, seeking out new knowledge is even better. You can be successful and see an even better way to do things and learn from it. This … Continue reading
Warren Buffett’s 2010 Letter to Shareholders
Warren Buffett has published his always excellent annual shareholder letter. His letters, provide excellent investing insight and good management ideas. Yearly figures, it should be noted, are neither to be ignored nor viewed as all-important. The pace of the earth’s … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Investing, Management
Tagged evidence based management, Investing, management, Psychology, Systems thinking, Warren Buffett
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Nigel Marsh: How to Make Work-Life Balance Work
“I want you to pause for a minute, you wretched weaklings, and take stock of your miserable existence.” Nigel Marsh paraphrasing (or quoting, I can’t find the source though) the advice that Saint Benedict gave his startled followers. I wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Psychology, Systems thinking
Tagged problem solving, Psychology, Systems thinking
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Management Improvement Carnival #123
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 Improvement guide since 1996 (lean manufacturing, Deming, agile software … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged management, Systems thinking
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Supporting Free and Open Source Software
Gabriel Weinberg (founder of the great Duck Duck Go search engine) proposed starting a FOSS Tithing movement. Many benefit greatly from free and open source software like: Ruby on Rails, Linux (my favorite version Ubuntu), WordPress, Apache, Ruby, Perl, Nginx, … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management
Tagged charity, Creativity, open source, Software Development, Systems thinking
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The Achilles’ Heel of Agile
Guest post by Jurgen Appelo When I wrote this, I was working in a big open office space in the Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam (see photo). About 100 people work in an office that was the first of its … Continue reading
Building Adoption of Management Improvement Ideas in Your Organization
Continuation of How to Get a New Management Strategy, Tool or Concept Adopted Target something that actually provides a good story. It often helps if there have been failures in attempts to solve a problem in the past. That makes … Continue reading
Good Process Improvement Practices
Good process improvement practices include: standardized improvement process (pdsa, or whatever) Going to the gemba – improvement is done where the work is done. You must go to the where the action is. Sitting in meeting rooms, or offices, reading … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Lean thinking, Management, Process improvement, quote, Respect, Six sigma, Systems thinking
Tagged continual improvement, curiouscat, Deming, gemba, John Hunter, Lean thinking, Process improvement, Quality tools, quote, respect for people, Six sigma, Systems thinking, Toyota Production System (TPS)
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Airport Security with Lean Management Principles
The ‘Israelification’ of airports: High security, little bother [the broken link was removed] We [Israel] said, ‘We’re not going to do this. You’re going to find a way that will take care of security without touching the efficiency of the … Continue reading →