Category Archives: Carnival

Please submit your favorite management posts to the carnival. Read the previous management carnivals. Take your friends to the Gemba with you by Lee Fried – “Over the last six months we have been developing and refining visual systems to … Continue reading →

Management Improvement Carnival #16 is hosted by Mark Graban at the Lean Blog. Some highlights include: How Toyota Handles Disaster, by Matthew May at “Elegant Solutions”: “Sometimes the Wall Street Journal has at best one use: wrapping fish. To wit, … Continue reading →

Please submit your favorite management posts to the carnival. John Kotter on Change Management by Lauchlan Mackinnon – “Kotter therefore suggests an 8-stage process for managing organisational change that addresses each one of these concerns and turns them around to … Continue reading →

Management Improvement Carnival #14 is hosted by Kevin Meyer at Evolving Excellence. Some highlights include: Reducing Waste for Shoppers at Lean Blog. “The traditional grocery store is to spread out common items to force you to walk the whole store … Continue reading →

Please submit your favorite management posts to the carnival. Outrageously Good Customer Service by Steven Levitt – “I would trade it all for a few more instances in which the airline does something out of the ordinary to get me … Continue reading →

Please submit your favorite management posts to the carnival. Employee Driven Improvement at Southwest by Mark Graban – “It’s not called Lean, nor does it reference Toyota, but it sounds like Lean. It’s always nice to see management taking that … Continue reading →

Please submit your favorite management posts to the carnival. Deming Point 2 – Adopt a philosophy of cooperation where everyone wins and teach it to everyone by Josh Nankivel – “The win-win environment spearheaded by the project manager and sponsor … Continue reading →

Listening, Responding, Refining by Matt Cutts – “But you don’t need blogs or digg-like sites in this picture to respond to feedback; those are just tools. The important thing is the process. It’s a process that many groups at Google … Continue reading →

Good is not almost as good as great by Seth Godin – “They understand what a customer wants. They’re not just better than good. They’re playing a totally different game.” Great point (says John Hunter) “Fire half your salesforce. Then, … Continue reading →