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Tag Archives: management experts
The Best Leadership Is Good Management
The Best Leadership Is Good Management [the broken link has been removed] by Henry Mintzberg Let me suggest that you should, because what we’ve been calling a financial crisis is actually one of management. Corporate America has had too much … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Management Articles, Systems thinking
Tagged Books, leadership, management, management experts, Systems thinking
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Dr. Deming Webcast on the 5 Deadly Diseases
The W. Edwards Deming Institute has posted Dr. Deming’s 1984 video on the 5 deadly diseases of western management. Lack of constancy of purpose Emphasis on short term profits – “creative” accounting, focus on quarterly profits Annual Performance Appraisals – … Continue reading
Bogus Theories, Bad for Business
The Wall Street Journal has a book review of The Management Myth by Matthew Stewart. The book flushes out the ideas Matthew Stewert explored in a previous article in the Atlantic about the failure of management to mature as a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Deming, Lean thinking, Management, Science
Tagged Deming, Lean thinking, management, management experts, management research, managing people, Systems thinking
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Red Bead Experiment Webcast
Dr. Deming used the red bead experiment to present a view into management practices and his management philosophy. The experiment provides insight into all four aspects of Dr. Deming’s management system: understanding variation, understanding psychology, systems thinking and the theory … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Deming, Education, Management, Performance Appraisal, Psychology, quote, Respect, webcast
Tagged control chart, Data, Deming, Fun, management, management experts, Performance Appraisal, Psychology, Quality tools, training, variation, webcast
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Jeff Bezos and Root Cause Analysis
Using quality tools really works. Lots of people don’t use them. Improving is often not any more difficult than just applying tools that have been used for decades. Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Quality tools, Respect
Tagged Amazon, Bezos, management experts, Quality tools
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Management Advice Failures
…when we fail to value the best ideas, instead valuing the new ideas, we are not as effective as we could be. We often accept pale copies of good old ideas instead of going to the good old ideas – which will often lead to a much richer source of knowledge. Continue reading
Posted in Management, Management Articles, Popular, quote
Tagged curiouscat, management, management experts, management history, Popular, research
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Management Improvement History
I do believe we need to improve our practice of Quality (and to do that we need to understand what happened in the past and why it was not more successful). The idea that Design of Experiments (DoE) was at the core of some Quality Movement to me is not at all accurate. In my experience only a few Quality professionals today understand what it means and how it should be applied. The idea that it was common place in the 40’s I seriously doubt (though I don’t have first hand knowledge of this). I find it difficult to believe we would have decided to stop using DoE if it was commonly done previously. The understanding I have from those that should know (like George Box and previously my father – Bill Hunter) is that it was not at all common practice and still is not outside of a few industries and even there it is isolated in the domain of a few experts. Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Hunter, curiouscat, Deming, Design of Experiments, George Box, management, management experts, management history, quality, Six sigma, SPC, Statistics, TQM
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Classic Management Theories Are Still Relevant
Good management is good management: it doesn’t matter if someone figured out the good idea 100 years ago or last week. Are “Classic” Management Theories Still Relevant? It did make me wonder about the staying power of management models, processes, … Continue reading →