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, evidence based management, lean manufacturing, agile software development, systems thinking…)
- The Key Questions for a Minimum Viable Product Project by Anthony Panozzo – “What are you trying to learn with this particular MVP?
What data are you collecting about your experiment?
What determines the success or failure of the experiment?” [bold added – John] - Less Process, More Discipline by Charlie Martin – “Without it, you lose everything agile methods promise. The key to agile methods is this: You may have less process, but you must have more discipline.”
- Evaluating Executive Performance by Art Smalley – “One interesting thing that I will note that was considered in Toyota in Japan by the HR department when evaluating executives was how their previous departments fared after they had left. If the department continued to improve then this was generally a good sign.”
- The evolution of design to amplify flow by John Hagel – “If we want to remain successful and reap the enormous rewards that can be generated from flows, we must continually seek to refine the designs of the systems that we spend time in to ensure that they are ever more effective in sustaining and amplifying flows.”
- Beyond Just Words – What Apple Could Do by Kevin Meyer – “How about immediately hiring and sending an Apple observer into every plant, perhaps every line in every plant, full time… Difficult? Sure. Ethical business often is.”
- Changing the game by Gabriel Weinberg – “For example, one tactic is to look at customer acquisition channels too small for your competitors to care about. I did reddit ads when they first came out and since there was no one there you could get a huge ROI. The saturation point was so small that for any major competitor it is a complete waste of time (now that Reddit is bigger, that may have changed).”
- We are Being Ruined by the Best Efforts of People Who are Doing the Wrong Thing by John Hunter – “Best efforts can often cause damage to the organization when people give their best efforts but are not guided by knowledge of what is useful and what is harmful.”
Sunset over Andaman, Khao Lak, Thailand. By John Hunter
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