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Category Archives: Career
How to Get Ahead
Deep Thinkers Need Not Apply: How To Get Ahead In the Modern Business World [the broken link has been removed – when will sites be managed with the known wise practices from 1998 (web addresses need to live forever)?]: Fast … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Management, Performance Appraisal, Psychology
Tagged managing people, Psychology
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Deming Seminar Update
Ian Bradbury, President of Peaker Services Inc., will discuss his company’s implementation of Dr. Deming’s theory of management at a seminar in Lansing, Michigan, 23-25 April 2007. As I mentioned previously I will be co-presenting this seminar. Several interesting articles: … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Deming, Management, Process improvement, Systems thinking
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Your Online Presence
Web anonymity can sink your job search [the broken link was removed]: In today’s job market, turning up missing on the Web may not be a fatal flaw, and it’s probably better than having a search result in a photo … Continue reading
Curious Cat Management Improvement Web Site
The Curious Cat Management Improvement site includes a wide array of resources for management professionals (and has been growing and improving, I hope, since 1996). Our calendar now includes several interesting opportunities including Performance Measures and Statistics Workshop [the broken … Continue reading
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Interviewing and Hiring Programmers
Interviewing and Hiring by Tom Van Vleck “Let’s take a break from talking to people. Why don’t you have a seat in this empty office, and write a small program. Use any language you want to. The program can do … Continue reading
Posted in Career, IT, Management, Software Development
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Applied Quality Engineering Education
Classroom projects translate into immediate workplace gains for working professionals in engineering [the broken link was removed] In the final semester of his UW–Madison master’s degree, Bob Aloisi didn’t just earn a letter grade in his quality engineering class: He … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Education, Management, Science
Tagged economy, engineering, Madison, Manufacturing, Wisconsin
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Google’s Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm
Google Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm. First, from a “what should I do,” view, I believe, Kevin Meyer’s advice is more appropriate: The False God of the Almighty Algorithm. But Google can do some things well that are … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Creativity, Google, Innovation, Management
Tagged Creativity, Google, hiring, Innovation
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Hiring the Right People
The job market is an inefficient market. There are many reasons for this including relying on specification (this job requires a BS in Computer Science – no Bill Gates you don’t meet the spec) instead of understanding the system. Insisting … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Customer focus, IT, Management, Performance Appraisal, Popular
Tagged Career, curiouscat, Deming, hiring, Management, managing people, Popular
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Management Improvement Conferences
The Curious Cat Management Improvement Calendar includes several interesting conferences and seminars [the broken link was removed] taking place the rest of this year including: Deming Immersion Program [the broken link was removed] – an opportunity for no more than … Continue reading
The Exciting Life of Industrial Statisticians
Never a Dull Day: The Life of an Industrial Statistician by Gerry Hahn. Gerry Hahn was one of the great applied statisticians of the last 50 years, working at GE for over 45 years. Six sigma has many variants, he … Continue reading
