Yearly Archives: 2010

Management Improvement Carnival #111

Mark Graban hosts the Management Improvement Carnival #111 on the lean blog, highlights include: Daily Kaizen (Lee Fried), Teach Everyone the Business – Lee, a lean facilitator at Group Health in Washington, writes “When I reflect on Health Care and … Continue reading

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Manufacturing Jobs Increasing for First Time Since 1998 in the USA

Surprise! Blue collar jobs are coming back Manufacturing employment began its decline long before the recession, losing jobs every year since 1998. But since the start of this year, there’s been a 1.6% gain in manufacturing jobs — about twice … Continue reading

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Management Improvement Carnival #110

The management blog carnival is published 3 times a month with select recent management blog posts. Also try Curious Cat Management Articles for online management improvement articles. Visual Management for having a baby by Xavier Quesada Allue – “The team … Continue reading

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Change How Your Business Changes

[They seem to have broken the webcast so I have delete it. How sad it is how poor a job well financed organizations to at maintaining what they put online.] John Kotter believes technology and globalization are requiring us to … Continue reading

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Management Improvement Carnival #109

The management blog carnival is published 3 times a month with select recent management blog posts. Also try our collected management articles and blogs posts at: Curious Cat Management articles. When to coach the process, and when to coach the … Continue reading

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Management Improvement Carnival #108

Kevin Meyer hosts the Management Improvement Carnival #108 on his blog, highlights include: Gemba Tales: Developing Leader Standard Work – Five Important Steps – key components of leader standard work. Flinchbaugh: Small-i ROI as Applied to Strategy – Sometimes instead … Continue reading

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The role of leadership in software development

The webcast of Mary Poppendieck’s talk, The role of leadership in software development, at Google. As usual Mary does a very nice job of providing some good historical background while exploring wise management practices (tied to software development but plenty … Continue reading

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Management Blog Posts from July 2006

New Rules for Management? No! – “New” rule: “Look out, not in.” What kind of rule is that? It is pretty obvious you need to do both. I find it incredible the amount of time that is taken trying to … Continue reading

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Lean Daily

Lean Daily consolidates the latest posts from seven excellent lean blogs in one convenient, free, iPhone app. Learn more about it, see a simulator demo, and download it directly from iTunes. Mark Graban, Lean Blog, took the lead and a … Continue reading

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Managing Our Way to Economic Success

From Managing Our Way to Economic Success, Two Untapped Resources by William G. Hunter, my father. Written in 1986, but still plenty relevant. We have made some good progress, but there is much more to do: we have barely started … Continue reading

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