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Tag Archives: change
Process Improvement and Innovation
Every so often an article appears discussing the need to change focus from process improvement to innovation (and recently they are followed with quite a bit of blog talk). I disagree on several grounds. First you have needed to focus … Continue reading
Motivating People to Change
Don’t miss a nice series of posts by Jon Miller: How to Motivate People to Change – part 1, part 2, part 3. [links broken, so removed 🙁 ] Success may come in the short term when motivation is through … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Lean thinking, Management, Psychology, Respect, Toyota Production System (TPS)
Tagged change, managing people, motivation, Psychology
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Change is not Improvement
In response to: Why executives order reorgs [the broken link was removed] We trained hard… but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, quote
Tagged change, continual improvement, critical thinking, Psychology, quote, teams
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Management Lessons from Terry Ryan
Management Lessons from Terry Ryan: Humility, Stability & Personality from Management by Baseball: competitors in any endeavor figure anything easy must not be a very important differentiator (bass-ackwards of course, but the erroneous mental algebra is that if it was … Continue reading
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Tagged change, Creativity, Innovation, leadership, management, management history, Psychology, workplace improvement
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Laurence Haughton on Peter Drucker
Laurence Haughton on Peter Drucker [the broken link was removed]: He criticized organizations who issued directives to “cut 5 or 10 percent from budgets across the board.” … And I’ll bet others can find 100 additional quoted and ignored lessons … Continue reading
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Tagged change, Drucker, leadership, management
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