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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Peter Senge on Systems Thinking
People must be willing to challenge their mental models in order to find non-obvious areas of high leverage – which allow significant improvement. System thinking is a term that is often confusing to people. From my perspective it is important … Continue reading
Executive Leadership
Senior executives must lead management improvement efforts. When senior executives only give lip service to management efforts the result is normally the same: little happens. When Dr. Deming was working with companies after the 1980’s NBC white paper, If Japan … Continue reading
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Tagged ASQ Influential Voices, business, Deming, executives, leadership, management, productivity
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Management Improvement Blog Carnival #193
The Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival is published twice each month. The posts selected for the carnival focus on the areas of management improvement I have focused on in the Curious Cat Management Improvement Guide since 1996: Deming, lean thinking, … Continue reading
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Lean Blog Podcast with John Hunter
Mark Graban interviewed me for the Lean Blog podcast series: Podcast #174 – John Hunter, “Management Matters” (listen using this link). Links to more information on what we discussed in the podcast. Madison, Wisconsin: William G. Hunter, George Box, Brian … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Deming, Lean thinking, Management, Respect
Tagged Books, Deming, John Hunter, Madison, management, Management Matters, podcast, Psychology, respect for people
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Management Improvement Blog Carnival #192
The Curious Cat management blog carnival has been published since 2006. New posts are published twice a month. I also publish a collection management improvement articles on the Curious Cat management improvement articles site. Customer Service Andon Cord: Jeff Bezos … Continue reading
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