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Yearly Archives: 2012
Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog Carnival #174
The Curious Cat management blog carnival is published 3 times a month with hand picked recent management blog posts. I also collect management improvement articles for the Curious Cat Management Articles site; an RSS feed of new article additions is … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
Tagged Carnival, Lean thinking, management, photos
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Corporate Social Responsibility
This month Paul Borawski (CEO of ASQ) has asked the ASQ Influential Voices to share their thoughts on the Intersection of Quality and Social Responsibility. An understanding of system thinking allows people to see the relationships of connected elements in … Continue reading
Posted in Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged ASQ Influential Voices, ethics, society, Systems thinking
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Value Stream Mapping for Fun and Profit
Guest post by Evan Durant, author of the Kaizen Notebook blog [The broken link was removed]. I tend to get a little preachy about the importance of value stream maps, but they really can be useful tools not only to … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Quality tools
Tagged guest post, lean manufacturing, Manufacturing, Quality tools
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Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog Carnival #173
The Curious Cat management carnival is published 3 times a month highlighting some recent management blog posts. The posts generally focus on the areas I have focused on in the Curious Cat Management Improvement Guide since 1996. I added a … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival
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Simple Customer Care: Communicate
Some management issues are hard. You are often balancing priorities. Sometimes though it is extremely simple: either you have concern for customers and take actions to back that up or you have some concern but don’t do anything about it. … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, IT, Management
Tagged bad customer service, bank, Customer focus, customer service
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Management Improvement Blog Carnival #172
Christian Paulsen is hosting the 172nd Management Improvement Carnival. Highlights include: Waves at Old Lean Dude: Bruce Hamilton (a.k.a. the Toast Guy) writes about surges in production and work load that are self-inflicted. One of the 14 Toyota Way principles … Continue reading
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Customer Focus
Customer Focus is at the core of a well managed company. Sadly many companies fail to serve their customers well. To serve customers, a thorough understanding of what problem you solve for customers is needed. The decisions at many companies, … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Deming, Management
Tagged continual improvement, Customer focus, leadership, management, Systems thinking, tips
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Management Improvement Blog Carnival #171
The Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
Tagged entrepreneur, hiring, management
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Pay Attention to the Results that Matter
Play pumps is a great sounding idea. Most people reading this blog have clean tap water a few steps away. Over a billion people today still struggle to get water every day. A common method to get water is using … Continue reading
Leading Improvement and Enjoying the Rewards
The better job you do of managing the easier your job becomes. As a manager your primary responsibility is to improve the system: both the systems within your sphere of control and those outside of it. The more effectively you … Continue reading
Posted in Management, quote, Systems thinking
Tagged coaching, curiouscat, leadership, management, managers, quote, Systems thinking, tips
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