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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 tricks that will help you analyze evidence to guide your decision making. If you’re a statistical whiz, you’ll find a lot here that’s just fun. Representative Recent Post: Big Ideas may not have supporting evidence, but they sell books by … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Carnival #128

Posted on April 10, 2011 by John Hunter

The 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. Resist your machine thinking! [the broken link was removed] by Jeff Liker – “To maintain consistent output, one must continually adjust the system to changing environmental conditions. This is called dynamic homeostasis in systems thinking, or running to stay in place. … Maintenance comes … Continue reading →

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3rd Annual Management Blog Review Part 2 of 2

Posted on January 19, 2011 by John Hunter

The management blog review this year, had 14 management bloggers review close to 50 management blogs. See part one of the roundup. And here are links to the new review posts: Mark Hamel posted his 3rd review (the first 2 are listed in part one) covering John Shook’s Lean Management Column. Karen Wilhelm reviewed Design Thinking, The Lean Edge and Thinking for a Change and posted a diagram showing the links between the blogs involved in the annual review. Wally … Continue reading →

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Annual Management Blog Review: Software, Manufacturing and Leadership

Posted on January 9, 2011 by John Hunter

In my contribution to the 3rd annual management blog roundup I will take a look at 3 blogs: Dennis Stevens, How to implement “Lean Thinking” in a Business and the Three Star Leadership Blog. This year 14 management bloggers contributed to highlight over 40 blogs, be sure to check out all the posts. Dennis Stevens writes a blog of the same name focused on agile software development principles with a strong focus on Dr. Deming’s ideas and lean thinking. What’s … Continue reading →

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3rd Annual Management Blog Review Part 1

Posted on January 2, 2011 by John Hunter

This year the management blog review has 14 management bloggers taking a look at close to 50 management blogs. Here are links to the blog roundups published so far: Jamie Flinchbaugh started things off with posts on: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog, Lean Reflections, A Lean Journey and Beyond Lean. Jamie did a very nice job of including photos of some of the bloggers and seemed to start a nice trend for some of the other review posts. Dan Markovitz … Continue reading →

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Lean Daily

Posted on August 25, 2010 by John Hunter

Lean Daily consolidates the latest posts from seven excellent lean blogs in one convenient, free, iPhone app. Learn more about it, see a simulator demo, and download it directly from iTunes. Mark Graban, Lean Blog, took the lead and a number of us combined efforts to provide this as a free service to our loyal readers: Ron Pereria (Lean Six Sigma Academy) Jon Miller (Gemba Panta Rei) Kevin Meyer (Evolving Excellence) Matt May (In Pursuit of Elegance) Jamie Flinchbaugh (Lean … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Carnival #105

Posted on August 1, 2010 by John Hunter

The management blog carnival is published 3 times a month with select recent management blog posts. Also try our collected management articles and blogs posts at: Curious Cat Management articles. Instead of a Layoff by Gregg Stocker – “Everyone has a stake in the company. When a company has a history of layoffs, though, people feel powerless, disconnected, and expendable. The organization’s leaders send a very clear message that employees are not important when jobs are cut in response to … Continue reading →

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Management Blog Posts From June 2006

Posted on June 26, 2010 by John Hunter

Management Advice Failures – It is amazing to me how often we accept non-solutions. If someone objects that we have tried that “solution” and it didn’t work they are often shut down with a version of: “don’t be negative” or “I don’t want to hear we tried that before and it didn’t work” (we are different now) or “we need team players” or “if you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem”… Edward Tufte’s new … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Carnival #100

Posted on June 10, 2010 by John Hunter

I started the management improvement blog carnival in 2006. At the time the number of blogs posting useful management ideas had already grown to a large number. It took years after I started my Curious Cat Management Improvement site, in 1996, to have even a handful of consistently useful web sites for those interested in improving the management of organizations. Blogs really started the explosion of good management content online. Now we have more great blogs nearly every month. This … Continue reading →

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Finding Great Management Articles, Posts and Resources

Posted on May 26, 2010 by John Hunter

Reddit is a web site that ranks web pages by user votes. The site uses an algorithm that has a very large timeliness factor. So top ranked links move down the list fairly quickly. This results in a nice site to look at to find links others have found interesting recently. I created a management sub-reddit (a distinct topic-focused-area on the management improvement topics covered in this blog) in 2008. The sub-reddit seems to be about ready to reach a … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Carnival #90

Posted on March 2, 2010 by John Hunter

The Curious Cat Management Improvement blog carnival provides links to recent blog posts for those interesting in improving management of organizations. Leader Standard Work Should Be…Work! by Mark Hamel – “A lean leader’s standard work, among other things, may require him to check a particular work cell once in the morning and once in the afternoon to ensure that the workers are maintaining their plan vs. actual chart (usually by hour), and that specific and meaningful reasons for any shortfalls … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Carnival #87

Posted on February 1, 2010 by John Hunter

The Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival provides links to recent articles to help managers improve the performance organization. Lean in Sweden: Tools < Thinking by Mark Graban – “Tools have some value, but only in context of lean thinking and the lean management philosophy. Tools aren’t value-less, but thinking is better.” Manufacturing starts to come home by Dan Markovitz – “NCR sees domestic manufacturing as key to increasing sales as well. It enables them to make higher value-added products that … Continue reading →

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2009 Annual Management Blog Review Part 3 of 3

Posted on January 17, 2010 by John Hunter

The 2009 annual management improvement blog carnival continues with more bloggers posting highlights from some of their favorite management blogs. Also see 2009 Annual Management Blog Review Part 1 and part 2. Mark Graban’s review took a Boston theme covering Chasing the Rabbit, Running a Hospital, Gemba Coach and John Shook’s Management Column. Highlights include: Medical Intensive Care Units go Lean: Result = Happiness What’s health care reform missing? Quality! How Do I Convince People to Practice Lean? A Trip … Continue reading →

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2009 Curious Cat Management Blog Carnival

Posted on January 9, 2010 by John Hunter

10 management blogs are participating in the 2009 Management Blog Carnival. Be sure to check out all the great posts. Here we are looking at some exceptional posts on the , Training Within Industry and Making IT Clear. The quotes below are taken from blog posts on these blogs (and include links to the posts they are taken from) Visual Management Blog by Xavier Quesada Allue “Visual Management is the practice of using information visualization techniques to manage work. A … Continue reading →

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2009 Annual Management Blog Review Part 2

Posted on January 4, 2010 by John Hunter

The 2009 annual management improvement blog carnival continues with more bloggers posting highlights from some of their favorite management blogs (see 2009 Annual Management Blog Review Part 1). Kevin Meyer looked back through the posts from TimeBack Management, Lean Six Sigma Academy, Curious Cat Management Improvement, A Lean Journey, and Stats Made Easy and found some gems, including 7 Practical Ways to Respect People by Ron Pereira Sustainability: Ten Factors for Making Culture Change Stick by Tim McMahon Experiments for … Continue reading →

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2009 Annual Management Blog Review Part 1

Posted on December 30, 2009 by John Hunter

The 2009 annual management improvement blog review is underway. Jamie Flinchbaugh found excellent posts from In Pursuit of Elegance, Shmula blog and Got Boondoggle? Those posts include: The Art of Symmetry: Fractals and the Mandelbrot by Matthew May Respect for People, Underutilized People, and Waste by Pete Abilla Get Your Boots On! by Mike Wroblewski Mark J. Anderson has highlighted posts from Work Matters and will be reviewing Seth Godin and the Hexawise blog in upcoming posts. Highlights from Bob … Continue reading →

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