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2009 Annual Management Blog Review

Posted on December 21, 2009 by John Hunter

Over the next 2 weeks several management blogs will be posting their contributions to the 2009 year in review of management blogs. Posts will highlight some of the best posts on other management blogs in the last year. The home page of the 2009 review of management blogs will be updated as new posts are added. The hosts of the 2009 management blog carnival include the: Lean Blog, Jamie Flinchbaugh, Stats Made Easy, Gemba Panta Rei and Lean Reflections. See … Continue reading →

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Management Blog Posts From March 2006

Posted on November 27, 2009 by John Hunter

Photo of sunset in Mount Rainier National Park by John Hunter Cease Mass Inspection for Quality – “Deming point 3 is ‘Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality.’ Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.” Lean Management – most organizations will not seriously consider changing the current management thought process without drastic threat (bankruptcy) or numerous successful improvements that give credibility to the new management ideas… Using Design … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Carnival #70

Posted on July 20, 2009 by John Hunter

Shaun Sayers is hosting the Management Improvement Carnival #70 on the Capable People blog, highlights include: 8 ways to get total involvement by Jon Miller: “How do we get total involvement from our people in the good things?” Total company involvement by Peter Abilla: “Most vision or mission statements are hollow, uninspirational artifacts. Sloganeering, as it were: they sound good, but fail to mobilize a team” The limits of customer involvement by Shaun Sayers: “I’m noticing a growing tendency for … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Carnival #66

Posted on June 12, 2009 by John Hunter

The Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival began in 2006 with the goal to provide links to interesting blog posts for those interesting in improving the practice of management. Jidoka is not just “built-in-quality” by Jason Yip – “Jidoka is not just about stopping and notifying of problems immediately. It also includes the concept of separating human and machine work. Effectively the idea of using machines to free humans.” How to Engage People in Kaizen by Jon Miller – “Frame all … Continue reading →

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Management Blog Posts From February 2006

Posted on May 7, 2009 by John Hunter

Performance Appraisal Problems – My best advice is to read chapter 9 of The Leader’s Handbook and read the rest of the Leader’s Handbook and other great management improvement books. And manage using the ideas of Deming, Ackoff, Scholtes, McGregor, Ohno… Refer back to the great books as you gain experience and continue to learn and practice management improvement. Global Manufacturing Data by Country – This data shows the United States manufacturing economy is continuing to grow and is solidly … Continue reading →

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More Management Blog Posts From January 2006

Posted on April 25, 2009 by John Hunter

Great Charts – The lack of such effective visual display of information is another example of how much improvement could be made just by applying ideas that are already published. Change is not Improvement – if you have to document how you will know the change is successful it makes it more difficult to change for just the appearance of improvement. Management Excellence – Most management practices cannot be plugged into any organization and work well. That practice must be … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Carnival #61

Posted on April 20, 2009 by John Hunter

Submit suggestions for the management improvement carnival. Unplanned items and legacy issues by Xavier Quesada Allue – “A small change request if you want. How are you going to manage this work? Are you going to create a new story for this? Too much overhead… just put up a task (a post-it) in Legacy Issues, get it done with and forget about it.” Ask Gemba: Nuts and Bolts of the Andon System by Jon Miller – “Each person should have … Continue reading →

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Management Blog Posts From January 2006

Posted on April 15, 2009 by John Hunter

John Hunter on the top of the Bear’s Hump trail in the park, Waterton, Canada. A great, very steep trail. Agility vs. Six Sigma – “Process improvement should be part of a well run system, as should innovation. Deming, who many believe focused only process improvement, knew the importance of both. See several of Deming’s ideas on innovation.” The Public Sector and Deming – Madison’s quality improvement efforts began after then-Mayor James F. Sensenbrenner and his staff were exposed to … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Carnival #59

Posted on April 1, 2009 by John Hunter

Nicole Radziwill is hosting the Management Improvement Carnival #59 on the Quality and Innovation blog, highlights include: June Holley, talking about self-organizing to achieve systems-level innovation. She notes that because theory is lacking, this process might be protracted, but to get to the point of understanding theory we need some more “real life” examples and case studies of how we self-organize in our organizations well – and not so well. Small is the new big. Sustainable is the new growth. … Continue reading →

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Management Blog Posts From December 2005

Posted on March 30, 2009 by John Hunter

One of my long time campaigns is to raise awareness of the huge problems caused by massively excessive executive pay. As I said in my December 2005 post: The executive pay excesses are so great now they will force companies to choose to: take huge risks to justify such pay and then go bankrupt when such risks fail (and some will succeed making it appear that the pay was deserved rather than just the random chance of taking a large … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Carnival #58

Posted on March 20, 2009 by John Hunter

Submit suggestions for the management improvement carnival. Visit the Curious Cat Management Library for online management improvement articles. No Blame Thinking by Mike Wroblewski – “It’s not who’s wrong, it’s what’s wrong. It’s not who’s right, it’s what’s right. All other thinking leads to hiding the truth, distorting the information and covering up the problem” Three Sigma Bubble? Nonsense! by Marc Hersch – “Grantham’s argument is fallacious. The assumption underlying the use of three-sigma limits is that the system being … Continue reading →

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Online Data Backup and Corporate Blogging

Posted on January 26, 2009 by John Hunter

This is a good example of a sensible corporate blog post, Online Data Backup [the broken link has been removed, breaking links is not a good practice for any website]. Their blog is fairly staid and impersonal (which is not normal for blogs) but as corporations take up blogging many such blogs are coming into being. blogs began as very personal communication vehicles, but that trait is not required (though completely impersonal blogs do not really seem like blogs at … Continue reading →

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Curious Cat Management Carnival: Select 2008 Highlights

Posted on January 12, 2009 by John Hunter

Over the last couple of years the quality of management material available online has increased dramatically. And blogs have provided much of the best management material. The Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival now provides highlights 3 times a month. Each carnival post highlights recent management related posts from several management blogs. And for the 2008 year in review 9 blogs have each taken a handful of management blogs and provided annual highlights. In this post we will cover four blogs: … Continue reading →

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Management Blog Carnival: 2008 Overview

Posted on December 24, 2008 by John Hunter

Over the next 2 weeks several management blogs will be posting their contributions to the management improvement annual blog carnival. Posts will highlight some of the best posts on other management blogs in the last year. Lean Six Sigma Academy:   Lean Blog, Gemba Panta Rei, Evolving Excellence, Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog Evolving Excellence:   LSS Academy, Got Boondoggle, Work Matters and Edge Perspectives Lean Blog:   The Lean Thinker, Elegant Solutions, John Shook’s Management and DailyKaizen Curious Cat … Continue reading →

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Top Blogs for Software Development Managers

Posted on September 14, 2008 by John Hunter

I am happy to say our blog has been included in the Top 100 Blogs for Development Managers. The list of blogs is quite impressive, including blogs referenced here previously: Joel on Software (ranked 1st), Coding Horror (2nd), Seth Godin’s Blog (3rd), Paul Graham’s essays (4), Signal vs. Noise (40)… Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Carnival #42

Posted on September 1, 2008 by John Hunter

Shaun Sayers is hosting the Management Improvement Carnival #42 on the Capable blog Continue reading →

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