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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Get Rid of the Performance Review
How Much Do You Hate Performance Reviews? by Bob Sutton Deming emphasized that forced rankings and other merit ratings that breed internal competition are bad management because they undermine motivation and breed contempt for management among people who, at least … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Deming, Management, Performance Appraisal
Tagged Books, Deming, management, managing people, Performance Appraisal, respect for people
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, Fulfillment and Flow
“After a certain basic point, which translates, more or less, to just a few thousand dollars above the minimum poverty level, increases in material well being don’t see to affect how happy people are.” The speech includes, the first purpose … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Creativity, Psychology, Respect, webcast
Tagged Books, Creativity, Economics, engineering, intrinsic motivation, Psychology, TED, webcast
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Management Improvement Carnival #89
The Curious Cat Management blog carnival highlights management blog posts 3 times each month. Also visit the Curious Cat Management Library for online management improvement articles. Three Surprises About Change by Chip and Dan Health (this is actually the full … Continue reading
Short Term Investing Focus
Buffett’s New CEO Shows Analysts, Hedge-Fund Managers to Door Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. completed the buyout yesterday after winning the approval of Burlington Northern investors. The deal, valued at $100 a share, allows Rose to hand out returns of nearly … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Investing, Management
Tagged Deming, Investing, long term thinking, management, short term thinking, Warren Buffett
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Management Improvement Carnival #88
Since 2006 the Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival has provided links to interesting blog posts for those interesting in improving the practice of management especially focused on the ideas of Deming, Ohno, Ackoff, Scholtes, McGregor, Womack, Christensen… Putting the Checklist … Continue reading
More Reasons to Avoid Layoffs
Lay Off the Layoffs by Jeffrey Pfeffer As its former head of human resources once told me: “If people are your most important assets, why would you get rid of them?” … In fact, there is a growing body of … Continue reading
Circle of Influence
In, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven Covey discusses the circle of control, circle of influence and circle of concern. This provides a good framework from which to view issues as you look for improvement strategies. Within your … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Creativity, Deming, Management, Popular, Psychology, quote, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged curiouscat, John Hunter, Management, managing people, organization as a system, Popular, Psychology, quote, respect for people, tips
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Observations of a New Googler
Some interesting thoughts from a new Google engineer, Things I’ve learned at Google so far I would describe Google’s culture as “creative chaos”. There was some confusion about where I was supposed to be when I started. This resulted in … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Google, Innovation, IT, Management, Software Development
Tagged Creativity, Google, Innovation, management, Software Development
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Understanding Psychology: Slogans – Risky Tools
Slogans mainly are bad. But like most things they can be used in ways that help or hurt. The main problem is when they substitute for a method to achieve the aim (most of the time). If the slogan serves … Continue reading
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Tagged curiouscat, Deming, John Hunter, management, management tools, motivation, Psychology, quote, respect for people
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Management Improvement Carnival #87
The Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival provides links to recent articles to help managers improve the performance organization. Lean in Sweden: Tools < Thinking by Mark Graban – “Tools have some value, but only in context of lean thinking and … Continue reading
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