Monthly Archives: May 2009

Management Blog Posts From February 2006

Performance Appraisal Problems – My best advice is to read chapter 9 of The Leader’s Handbook and read the rest of the Leader’s Handbook and other great management improvement books. And manage using the ideas of Deming, Ackoff, Scholtes, McGregor, … Continue reading

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Joel Spolsky Webcast on Creating Social Web Resources

Joel Spolsky webcast on creating Stack Overflow (with the goal of providing answers to professional programmers) using ideas from anthropology. Once again he provides great information. This is particularly interesting for software development but also just a good presentation for … Continue reading

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Management Improvement Carnival #62

Mark Graban is hosting the Management Improvement Carnival #62 on the Lean blog, highlights include: Why Quality is Dangerous (Dr. John Toussaint – ThedaCare Center Blog): “If we are going to have carrots and sticks it should be centered on … Continue reading

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