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Tag Archives: Management
Better and Different
Reaction to Toyota: Better or Different? and Seth Godin’s post. The answer, as I see it, is to be better and different (when necessary). In Seth’s post he talks about challenging people to find not just better solutions but different … Continue reading
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Tagged continual improvement, Deming, Management, Process improvement
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Problems Caused by Performance Appraisal
People are increasingly challenging the notion that we just have to live with performance appraisal systems. As usually, I will make my suggestion that chapter 9 of the Leader’s Handbook offers great material on performing without appraisal (and the rest of the book is great too). Continue reading
Management: Geeks and Deming
Why Business Needs More Geeks [the broken link was removed] by Robert May: then along came Wall Street. Obsessed with quarterly profit increases and seeing them as disconnected from value creation, Wall Street encouraged businesses to think short-term. The things … Continue reading
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Tagged Deming, IT, Management, technology
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Understanding Data
Topic: Management Improvement Statistics Abuse and Me by Jay Mathews: the Simpson’s Paradox numbers. The national average for the SAT went up only 4 points between 1981 and 2005, but the average for whites went up 10 points, for blacks … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Education, Management, Statistics
Tagged curiouscat, Data, Management, Statistics
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Respect for People
A very thoughtful post, Respect for People on the Kaikaku blog raises some interesting questions. What does respect for people really mean? Toyota empowers people: To stop the line – to stop every other worker from working – that is … Continue reading
Performance Appraisal Problems
The Struggle To Measure Performance [the broken link was removed], Business Week: One company that recently decided to dump forced rankings altogether is Chemtura (CEM), a $3 billion specialty chemicals company formed by the July merger of Crompton in Middlebury, … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Management Articles, Performance Appraisal, Psychology
Tagged Deming, Management, Performance Appraisal
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Management Training Program
Fog Creek Software Management Training Program by Joel Spolsky: Finally, when you’re really really good, they let you hang around with Yussef on the ovens. Yussef was about 100 years old and so good at running the ovens it was … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, IT, Management, Popular, quote, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged curiouscat, Education, Joel Spolsky, long term thinking, Management, Software Development, training
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Go Lean to Remain Competitive
Go Lean to Remain Competitive [the broken link was removed]: Captains of industry should adopt Lean Production Systems, an idea {conceived} by Toyota for its car-making, to transform their plants to efficient ones, for survival in the globalisation era Sundaram … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, India, Lean thinking, Management
Tagged Asia, Deming, lean manufacturing, Management, Manufacturing
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Deming’s Ideas at Markey’s Audio Visual
Last week at the Deming Institute seminar: How to Create Unethical, Ineffective Organizations That Go Out of Business, Mark Miller, General Manager, Markey’s Audio Visual spoke on Markey’s experience adopting Deming’s ideas. It was a great presentation. He did a … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Deming, Management
Tagged business, commissions, Customer focus, Deming, Management, management system, Performance Appraisal
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Seven Leadership Leverage Points
Seven Leadership Leverage Points [the broken link was removed]: for Organization-Level Improvement in Health Care by James L. Reinertsen, MD; Michael D. Pugh and Maureen Bisognano. If leaders are to bring about system-level performance improvement, they must channel attention to … Continue reading
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Tagged Health care, Management, Systems thinking
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