Category Archives: Management

Best Selling Books In the Curious Cat Bookstore

Posted on August 3, 2011 by John Hunter

The most popular books in July at Curious Cat Books were, Statistics for Experiments (1st edition), followed by Statistics for Experiments (2nd edition) and the Leader’s Handbook by Peter Scholtes. These books are great, I am happy others have been … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Carnival #138

Posted on August 2, 2011 by John Hunter

Wally bock hosts Management Improvement Carnival #138 on the Three Star Leadership Blog, highlights include: Evidence Soup by Tracy Allison Altman. This is a blog about assessing evidence. If statistics are not your thing, you’ll pick up some tips and … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Carnival #137

Posted on July 21, 2011 by John Hunter

The Curious Cat management blog carnival is published 3 times a month with select recent management blog posts. I also collect management improvement articles through Curious Cat Management Articles, you can subscribe via RSS to new article additions. Photo is … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Carnival #136

Posted on July 11, 2011 by John Hunter

The Curious Cat Management blog carnival highlights recent management blog posts 3 times each month. The posts generally focus on the areas I have focused on in the Curious Cat Management Guide since 1996 (Deming, leadership, agile software development, lean … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Carnival #135

Posted on July 5, 2011 by John Hunter

The Curious Cat Management blog carnival highlights recent management blog posts 3 times each month. The posts generally focus on the areas I have focused on in the Curious Cat Management Guide since 1996 (Lean manufacturing, Deming, agile software development, … Continue reading →

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I Will Co-Facilitate a Deming Seminar in Singapore July 25-27

Posted on June 27, 2011 by John Hunter

The W. Edwards Deming Institute is working with the NTUC LearningHub to offer management seminars in Singapore. I will be co-facilitating a Deming 2 1/2 day seminar in Singapore with Kelly Allan in July. The 2 1/2 day Seminar, Deming’s … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Carnival #134

Posted on June 20, 2011 by John Hunter

The Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival has been published since 2006. We find great management blog posts and share them with you. We hope you find these post interesting and find some new blogs to start reading. You may submitted … Continue reading →

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Avoiding Tragedy of the Commons for Software Development

Posted on June 15, 2011 by John Hunter

Kanban and Tragedy of the Commons The “Tragedy of the Commons” archetype often manifests itself through “Shared Services”, when a small number of people with specific skills, work across different teams. Each team in isolation gets benefit from the Shared … Continue reading →

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The aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men

Posted on June 13, 2011 by John Hunter

The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Carnival #133

Posted on June 10, 2011 by John Hunter

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