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Category Archives: Economics
Burning Toast: American Health System Style
Democrats and Republicans have created a health care system in the USA over the last 40 years that “burns toast” at an alarming rate. As the symptoms of their health care system are displayed they call in people to blame … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Health care, Management, Public Sector
Tagged blame, Economics, global, government, health care system, organization as a system
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Decades Later The USA Health Care System is Still a Deadly Disease for Our Economy
Decades ago W. Edwards Deming named 7 deadly diseases of western management. One of those was excessive health care costs. Sadly that deadly disease has become much worse in the last several decades. Americans pay 300% more for this prostate … Continue reading
Posted in Competition, Economics, Health care
Tagged deadly diseases, Deming, Economics, government, Health care, patent
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Manufacturing Outlook and History In the USA and Globally
I write primarily about management improvement on this blog – which makes sense given the title. In the very early days I had more on investing, economic data, science, engineering and travel. Then I created three new blogs (Curious Cat … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Manufacturing
Tagged China, Data, economic data, economy, Germany, Japan, Manufacturing, USA
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Business 901 Podcast: Two New Deadly Diseases for Business
I continue to record podcasts as I promote my new book – Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. In this podcast I discuss the 2 new deadly diseases facing companies. The second part of the Business 901 podcast will be posted … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Economics, Management
Tagged copyright, Deming, Economics, government, John Hunter, management, overpaid executives, patent, podcast
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The Market Discounts Proven Company Leadership Far Too Quickly
Developing a strong executive leadership culture is not a short term effort. It isn’t based on one person. It almost never deteriorates quickly. Yet markets continually overact to minor blips on the long term success of companies. I think this … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Economics, Investing
Tagged business, commentary, Investing, leadership, stockholders, Toyota
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Using Incentives to Guide Social System Improvements
When confronted with the challenge of managing a social system (or market) I like to find ways to use a few simple rules that will guide the system to find improvements. I favor allowing participants in complex social system to … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Economics, Public Sector, Systems thinking
Tagged Creativity, Economics, leadership, Systems thinking
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New Deadly Diseases
Management and the economy keep evolving. Many good things happen. In the last decade the best things are probably the increased deep adoption of lean thinking in many organizations and the adoption of lean and Deming methods in software development … Continue reading
Marketplace Looks at the Apple Economy
Marketplace looks at the Apple economy in China [the broken link was removed]. Marketplace is an excellent source of actual journalism; rare in the post Bill Moyers days, sadly. A look inside a Foxconn factory< [the broken link was removed] … Continue reading
Looking at Auto Manaufacturing in the USA
America’s Dirty War Against Manufacturing Bob Lutz, the former head of GM, says it was neither uncompetitive wages nor unions that drove the Big Three into decline. It was a management with its eye focused on the bottom line and … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Economics, Manufacturing
Tagged cars, Deming, economic data, economy, lean manufacturing, Manufacturing, Toyota, USA
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Kleptocrat CEOs and Their Apologists
I am disgusted by the lack of ethical and moral fiber of CEO’s (along with their cronies and apologists) in the USA. This lack comes out in many ways (see all the scandals at the too-big-to-fail banks etc.) but the … Continue reading →