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Monthly Archives: July 2005
Managing for Creativity
Managing for Creativity [broken link removed] by Richard Florida and Jim Goodnight, July-August 2005 issue of Harvard Business Review. Over many years, the leaders of SAS Institute have distilled a set of principles for getting peak performance from creative people. … Continue reading
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Scobleizer on David Anderson
Scobleizer, one of the most popular blogs (say in the top 50 most read), posted recently about David Anderson. Robert Scoble is a Microsoft employee with the title, technical evangelist. David Anderson is also a Microsoft employee working on Agile … Continue reading
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Saving Lives: US Health Care Improvement
8 part special report by US News and Word Report on improving the US Health Care system. Join IHI in an ambitious initiative called the 100K Lives Campaign. Its goal is to save 100,000 hospital patients’ lives by 9 a.m. … Continue reading
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Deming and Six Sigma
The first Curious Cat Management Improvement blog post was on the Six Sigma and Deming Philosophies Recently the Deming Electronic Network has returned to this topic (broken link removed). The Quality Advisor web site has an article on this topic: … Continue reading
Fashion-Incubator on Deming’s Ideas
Be corrigible: For example, I was sold on Deming years ago but people still aren’t talking about his ideas. If there were a Nobel prize for manufacturing, Deming should have won it It is true Deming’s ideas do not get … Continue reading
The Quality of Lean
The Quality of Lean post on Evolving Excellence. Lean has become so popular that companies (especially General Motors) have been snatching up lean experts, especially those with true TPS experience. Toyota itself is having difficulty finding and training appropriate people … Continue reading
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Management is Prediction
re: post on prediction [link broken, so removed] on the Deming Electronic Network: Petter Ogland wrote: …that intelligence more or less boils down to updating a predictive model of the world. As far as I can see, this is the … Continue reading
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Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt
Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt, CEO, GE. What makes a growth leader today, and how does that differ from the sort of leader who was effective at GE in the past? GE has always been a believer in leadership development. … Continue reading
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Managing Fear
The post, Root Causes of Crunch Mode from the Game Manager blog makes the good point that Fear and anxiety are known to reduce comprehension and learning ability. W. Edwards Deming made “drive out fear” one of his 14 management … Continue reading
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Could Toyota Fix GM
re: Thomas L. Friedman: Save us, O Toyota based on Thomas L. Friedman article in the Herald Tribune Save us, O Toyota where he states: I have a question: If I am rooting for General Motors to go bankrupt and … Continue reading
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