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Tag Archives: management
The New Age of Robots and What it Means for Jobs
I believe we have reached a turning point in the usefulness and effectiveness of industrial robots. For several decades it was pretty easy to predict wholesale adoption of “the robots will save us” mantra would be followed by failure. I … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Management
Tagged Economics, engineering, IT, leadership, management, organization as a system, robots, technology, Toyota
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20 Most Popular Posts on the Curious Cat Management Blog in 2017
These posts were the most popular posts on the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog in 2017 (as measured by page views, as recorded by my analytics application). Keys to the Effective Use of the PDSA Improvement Cycle (2012) The Toyota … Continue reading
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Tagged blogs, leadership, management, Popular
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Advice for Managers Who are Just Starting Out
I was interviewed by Vidal Graupera for his Managers Club blog, excerpts from that interview: What are the biggest challenges you face? Convincing organizations to adopt better management methods. People are very attached to historical ways of managing. While it … Continue reading
Posted in Management
Tagged Career, coaching, interview, John Hunter, management, managers
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RSS feed for Management Improvement Blog Posts
I have created a RSS feed for select blog posts from the start of the Curious Cat Management Improvement blog in 2004 (as well as other posts I have made on management improvement on other blogs). Subscribe to the John Hunter management improvement RSS feed. Doing so will add a post each day to your RSS feed reader from my past blog post. Of course, the normal RSS feed for this blog will continue to provide access to the new blog posts I publish. Continue reading
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Looking in the Mirror at Customer Focus
Most organizations say they are focused on meeting and exceeding customer needs. But, as a customer, this often isn’t what I experience. Delighting customers is critical to long term business success. Satisfied customers will remain your customers until they see … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Innovation, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged culture, Customer focus, customer service, Innovation, Japan, management, strategy
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20 Most Popular Posts on the Curious Cat Management Blog in 2016
These posts were the most popular posts on the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog in 2016 (as measured by page views, as recorded by my analytics application). Toyota Post Record Profit: Splits $15 million in Pay and Bonus for top … Continue reading
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Tagged blogs, leadership, management, Popular
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Podcast: Building Organizational Capability
The Software Process and Measurement Cast 420 features an interview with me, by Thomas Cagley, on Building Organizational Capability (download podcast). John Hunter in the podcast: Changing how organizations are managed makes a huge difference in people’s lives, not all … Continue reading
Bell Labs Designing a New Phone System Using Idealized Design
I remember hearing this same story when Russ Ackoff spoke at the Hunter Conference on Quality (which was named in honor of my father) in Madison, Wisconsin. If you haven’t heard this story you are in for a treat. And … Continue reading
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Tagged Ackoff, case study, change, engineering, Innovation, management, Systems thinking, transformation, webcast
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20 Most Popular Posts on the Curious Cat Management Blog in 2015
This is a list of the 20 most popular posts on the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog last year (as measured by page views, as recorded by my analytics application). The Toyota Way – Two Pillars (2010) Stated Versus Revealed … Continue reading
Giving Executives 40% of Revenue is Insane
I have previous written on my belief that excessive executive compensation had reached the level of a deadly disease of western management (building on the W. Edwards Deming’s list of 7 deadly diseases). I named excessive executive pay and a … Continue reading →