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Yearly Archives: 2005
New Management Blog Focus
We will use this blog to note blog post, articles and management resources. With this blog we will focus on serving as a central point to keep up with blogs and online articles relating to Management Improvement: Customer Focus, Process … Continue reading
Posted in Management
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Google and Acquiring Tiny Companies
I like Google and enjoy reading about the company. Even so I find the number of articles about the minor moves they make strange. At some point this fascination with the minor moves Google makes will stop but for now … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Investing, Management
Tagged Google, Innovation, Investing, Paul Graham
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Management Improvement Articles
Michael Porter’s Big Ideas by Keith H. Hammonds The world’s most famous business-school professor is fed up with CEOs who claim that the world changes too fast for their companies to have a long-term strategy. If you want to make … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Management Articles, Psychology, Six sigma
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Traffic Congestion and a Non-Solution
Topic: Management Improvement, Problem Solving I read, Study: Nation’s Traffic Jams Worsening [the broken link was removed], today on CNN.com. That same headline could have appeared in newspapers every day for the last few years. For decades traffic congestion has … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged Ackoff, cars, Creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, Systems thinking
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Brain Joiner on Dr. Deming
Topic: Management Improvement The Spring 2005 MAQIN newsletter [link broken, so it was removed] includes an interesting piece on a recent MAQIN event where the life and work of Dr. W. Edwards Deming was celebrated. Dr. Brain Joiner, author of … Continue reading
Annual Report by Warren Buffett
The annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway is being held this weekend in Omaha (cnn article). Recently the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report (by Warren Buffett) was published. The report is excellent reading for anyone interested in investing. Some quotes from … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Investing, Management
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Call for Papers – Deming Research Seminar
Topic: Management Improvement Call for Papers 12th Annual Research Seminar The W. Edwards Deming Institute and Fordham University 13-14 February 2006 New York City Papers that link Dr. Deming’s work to the academic literature or to the works of other … Continue reading
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10 stocks for 10 years
Topic: Investment I decided to look at selecting a portfolio of stocks I would be comfortable putting into an IRA for 10 years. My main criteria was companies with a history of large positive cash flow (that seemed likely to … Continue reading
Posted in Investing, Popular
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Beginning of the End of Housing Bubble?
Topic: Economics – Investing re: Beginning of the End of Housing Bubble? – Dan Gilmor blog post I doubt we are at the end of the bubble. However, financial bubbles are very difficult to time. My guess is the bubble … Continue reading
Management Improvement Articles
Topic: Management – Library Articles Recent additions to the Curious Cat Management Improvement Library include: Six Sigma and Kaizen Compared by Raphael L. Vitalo Deming Retrospective Inputs by Gerry Hahn Bringing Lean Systems Thinking to Six Sigma by Paul Mullenhour … Continue reading
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