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Gerald Suarez on Creating the Future
I was lucky enough to be hired by Gerald Suarez to work for him at the White House Military Office. The webcast below is speech he gave at TedX Loyola Marymount. The illusion of knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance. … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Management, Systems thinking, webcast
Tagged Books, Career, change, management webcast, planning, Psychology, system thinking, TED
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The Education System
The current topic for ASQ Influential Voices to address is the importance of the education system and the impact on the capability of employees. The education system is important and not very good in my opinion. As a kid I … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Public Sector
Tagged ASQ Influential Voices, Education, learning, USA
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Practicing Mistake-Promoting Instead of Mistake-Proofing at Apple
Mistake proofing is a wonderful management concept. Design systems not just to be effective when everything goes right but designing them so mistakes are prevented. I have had several bad customer experiences in the short time I have had my … Continue reading
How to Accelerate Quality Management Practices
For world quality month, Paul Borawski selected the topic of accelerating quality for discussion by ASQ’s Influential Voices. He specifically asks: what can we do to accelerate the rate of adoption of quality? As far as what ASQ can do … Continue reading
Business 901 Podcast with Me: Deming’s Management Ideas Today
I recently was interviewed for a podcast by Joe Dager, at Business 901: Dr. Deming on Lean in 2012. I hope you enjoy the podcast. Listen to this podcast. Here are some links related to items I mention in the … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Management
Tagged Deming, interview, John Hunter, lean manufacturing, Lean thinking, podcast, Toyota Production System (TPS)
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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
Customer Focus by Everyone
There are many critical elements to a management system. One that is fundamental, yet still poorly executed far too often, is creating a system where all staff can focus on enhancing value to the customer every day. If your enterprise … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Deming, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged build capacity, Customer focus, customer service, Deming, management, Systems thinking
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Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog Carnival #174
The Curious Cat management blog carnival is published 3 times a month with hand picked recent management blog posts. I also collect management improvement articles for the Curious Cat Management Articles site; an RSS feed of new article additions is … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
Tagged Carnival, Lean thinking, management, photos
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Management Blog Posts From November 2006
I have selected a few great posts from the Curious Cat Management Blog back in November 2006. What Could we do Better? – There are many important ideas to improve management. This is one of the most important tips to … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Process improvement, Quality tools, quote
Tagged blogs, curiouscat, Data, Deming, management, Process improvement, Quality tools, quote, tips
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Webcast on Lean Startups by Eric Ries
[broken embedded webcast link removed] Webcast with Eric Ries at PARC, author of Lean Startups, July 2011. Related: Why Lean is Different – An Introduction to Deming’s Management Ideas by Peter Scholtes (webcast) – Dr. Russell Ackoff Webcast on Systems … Continue reading
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Tagged entrepreneur, Lean thinking, management webcast
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