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Tag Archives: Career
Learn Lean by Doing Lean
In response to: Developing Your Lean Education Plan [the broken link was removed] If you actually let the lean leaders practice lean management you are probably doing more to help them learn than anything else. Reading is great, but 10 … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Education, Lean thinking, Management, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged Career, coaching, curiouscat, Education, John Hunter, Lean thinking, management, managing people, respect for people, Systems thinking, training
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Five Managerial Fallacies Concerning Layoffs
The Top Five Managerial Fallacies Concerning Layoff Survivors by David Noer, author of Healing the Wounds: Overcoming the Trauma of Layoffs and Revitalizing Downsized Organizations. The overwhelming consensus of downsizing research is that layoffs do not achieve their going in … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Psychology, Respect
Tagged Career, layoffs, management, Psychology, respect for people
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Job Listings Online Filled with Jargon
The job market is not great, 9.4% unemployment in the USA, and not efficient either. At my full time job, we hired a ruby on rails developer (web programmer) this month, and are looking to hire another. Job listings online … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Management, Software Development
Tagged Career, IT, jobs, respect for people, Software Development
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Building a Great Workforce
How P&G Finds and Keeps a Prized Workforce by Roger O. Crockett “We actually recruit for values,” says Chief Operating Officer Robert McDonald. “If you are not inspired to improve lives, this isn’t the company you want to work for.” … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Customer focus, Deming, Innovation, Lean thinking, Management, Management Articles, Psychology, Systems thinking
Tagged Career, coaching, Customer focus, ethics, Innovation, management, respect for people
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Build Your Business Slowly and Without Huge Cash Requirements
Get Rich Slow by Josh Quittner At no other time in recent history has it been easier or cheaper to start a new kind of company… These are Web-based businesses that cost almost nothing to get off the ground … … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Competition, Creativity, Innovation, Investing, IT, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged business, Career, Creativity, internet, IT, Lean thinking, Software Development, Systems thinking
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A Programmer’s View of the Universe
A few weeks ago I wrote about integrating information technology and business process management. This post from Steve Yegge is interesting and discusses one reason I find that a good strategy. Programmers, by and large, are good, practical systems thinkers … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Management, Respect, Software Development
Tagged Career, managing people, programming, Psychology, respect for people, Software Development
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Best Places to Work for Six Sigma Professionals
iSixSigma has created a list of the Best Places to Work for Six Sigma Professionals. To be eligible to participate, companies must have been actively engaged in using Six Sigma for at least two years and must employ a minimum … Continue reading
Management Improvement Jobs
Curious Cat Management Improvement Career Connections provides a source of jobs targeted to those interested in this blog. Take a look at the jobs listed now including: Lean Manager at Erlanger in Kentucky; Senior Lean Six Sigma Specialist at Cooper … Continue reading
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Internships Increasing
Hard to find a job, but not an internship The bullish market for interns is good news for those in college, who find that internships are increasingly required for landing that first job. The summer posts allow students to bolster … Continue reading
What to Wear to an Interview
Response to What to Wear for an IT Job Interview?. Is this just a huge bit stereotypical? Who can blame them for not wanting to bother with their wardrobes? Fashion is fickle. Fashion is expensive. Fashion requires imagination and inspiration, … Continue reading →