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Yearly Archives: 2011
Steve Jobs Discussing Customer Focus at NeXT
Video from 1991 when Steve Jobs was at NeXT. Even with the customer focus however, NeXT failed. But this does show the difficulty in how to truly apply customer focus. You have to be creative. You have examine data. You … Continue reading
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Tagged Customer focus, Data, engineering, IT, management, management webcast, marketing, Software Development
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Management Improvement Carnival #141
The Curious Cat Management blog carnival highlights recent management blog posts 3 times each month. The posts generally focus on the areas I have focused on in the Curious Cat Management Guide since 1996 (Deming, leadership, lean manufacturing, customer focus, … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
Tagged management
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Many Good Employees Want to Continue to Do Their Current Job Well
Far too much focus on managing people is given to helping them get ahead. Yes many people want to be promoted, and it is good to help them. But I would guess a majority of people really don’t (at this … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Psychology, Respect
Tagged coaching, management, managing people, motivation, Psychology, respect for people
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When Companies Can Treat You Like an ATM, Many Will Do So
The End of Refrigeration One small custom chip, some relays, a transformer, a couple of heat sinks, and a bunch of passive parts. Maybe a build cost of $20-30 or so? But GE’s price to me was $250, plus $150 … Continue reading
Management Improvement Carnival #140
Benjamin Mitchell hosts Management Improvement Carnival #140. He has choosen quite a few blogs making their first or second appearance on the management carnival (don’t forget to add blogs to your RSS feed that you are not already subscribed to), … Continue reading
Not Ambiguous Sign
I like the series of posts by Jon Miller on Ambiguous signs (another example). Here is a sign that got my attention recently and they succeeded in keeping me away (which I think was their intention). The area is near … Continue reading
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Tagged Quality tools, visual instructions, visual management
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Visual Management with Brown M&Ms
When you hear about rock musicians having a clause in their contract that they must have a bowl of M&Ms in their dressing room with all the brown M&Ms removed you could be excused for thinking: what will these crazy … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Quality tools
Tagged communication, Creativity, poka yoke, problem solving, Quality tools, visual communication, visual management
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Good Execution Can Make Management Tools Like Time and Motion Studies Useful
In my experience most management concepts are applied poorly. Many of the concepts may also be bad. For example, performance appraisals are both done poorly and a bad idea. The solution is not to do performance appraisal righter: for what … Continue reading
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Management Improvement Carnival #139
The Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival has been published since 2006. We find great management blog posts and share them with you 3 times a month. We hope you find these post interesting and find some new blogs to start … Continue reading
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Maslow on Dealing with Authoritarians
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is well known as a fundamental principle of human psychology. Maslow also said: “It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” Maslow on … Continue reading
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