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Tag Archives: leadership
Transform the Management System by Experimenting, Iterating and Adopting Standard Work
In this short video, Dr. John Toussaint describes how ThedaCare applied leadership standard work to create a successful management transformation. The changes to the management system were tested by applying standard work for all positions in 2 parts of the … Continue reading
Posted in Management, webcast
Tagged change, experiments, leadership, management system, standardization, transformation, webcast
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Most Popular Management and Leadership Quotes on Our Site in 2015
These were the most popular quotes on the Curious Cat Management and Leadership Quotes web site in 2015 (based on page views). Follow the link on the quote text for the source and more information on the quote. Having no … Continue reading
Culture Change Requires That Leaders Change Their Behavior
This month The ASQ Influential Voices are reacting to Luciana Paulise’s post: Facing Cultural Barriers by Leaders to Strengthen a Culture of Quality [the broken link was removed]. As Luciana stated: leaders need to change their behavior first if they … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management
Tagged ASQ Influential Voices, change, culture, leadership, transformation
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Making Your Case to Senior Executives
This month Dr. Suresh Gettala writes about the Talking To the C-Suite About Quality in the monthly ASQ Influential Voices post. My take is a bit different than Dr. Gettala (and most others) in that I believe CEOs are so … Continue reading
Change Management: Create a Culture Seeking Continual Improvement or Use Band-Aids?
Successfully shepherding change within an organization is often a challenge. Often change management strategies are mainly about how to cope with a toxic culture but exclude the option of fixing the toxic culture. Why not address the root causes instead … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Lean thinking, Management, Psychology, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged change, culture, curiouscat, leadership, managing people, organization as a system, Psychology, respect for people, root cause, trust
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All Data is Wrong, Some is Useful
From my first blog post on this blog – Dangers of Forgetting the Proxy Nature of Data we often fail to explore whether changes in the numbers (which we call results) are representative of the “true results” of the system … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Management
Tagged curiouscat, Data, ethics, green, leadership, Statistics
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Transforming a Management System – A Case Study From the Madison Wisconsin Police Department
This post in an excerpt from The Quality Leadership Workbook for Police by Chief David Couper and Captain Sabine Lobitz (buy via Amazon). Transformational Steps A Case Study Madison, Wisconsin (1981-1993) Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Data, Deming, Management, Respect, Statistics
Tagged Books, case study, change, continual improvement, Customer focus, Data, Deming, leadership, Madison, management, organization as a system, Public Sector, respect for people, TQM, transformation
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Who Inspires Your Management Thinking and Action?
This month Bill Troy, ASQ CEO, asked ASQ Influential Voices bloggers: “who influenced or inspired your management thinking and in what ways?” He discussed Paul O’Neill’s influence on his thinking; I agree that Paul has done some very impressive work … Continue reading
Posted in Management
Tagged curiouscat, George Box, leadership, Madison, management, William Hunter
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The Importance of Leadership by Those Working to Improve Management
This month Bill Troy, ASQ CEO, asked ASQ Influential Voices bloggers to explore the importance of leadership for every quality management professional. Leadership is important but also something that often is difficult to understand what exactly is meant by the … Continue reading
Posted in Management
Tagged ASQ Influential Voices, business, Investing, leadership, quality
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A Strong Management System Handles the Transition of Leaders With Ease
Part three (of three) of an interview of me with Bill Fox has been published. Leadership While Viewing the Organization as a System …So if I see the weak management system as the problem, the solution is not nearly as … Continue reading
Posted in Deming
Tagged Deming, interview, John Hunter, leadership, organization as a system
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