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Tag Archives: system thinking
Robots for Health Care from Toyota
Japan has an extremely rapidly aging population. This increases the need for health care and for assistance with everyday tasks from the elderly. Japan is also among the leading countries for developing robots for health care and living assistance. I … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, IT
Tagged engineering, Health care, Innovation, Japan, long term thinking, system thinking, Toyota
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Lessons for Managers from Wisconsin and Duke Basketball
What can managers learn from Duke and Wisconsin’s basketball teams? Duke and Wisconsin are in the college basketball championship game tonight. They reached this stage through a great deal of hard work, skill, training and coaching. Raw talent matters to … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Systems thinking
Tagged Madison, management, sports, system thinking, teams, Wisconsin
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Is Quality Ambitious Enough?
This month Bill Troy, ASQ CEO, asked ASQ Influential Voices bloggers to explore the question – Is Quality Ambitious Enough? Bill Troy suggests a vision for ASQ of To improve the function and value of goods and services worldwide, and … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Management, Respect
Tagged aim, ASQ Influential Voices, Bill Hunter, respect for people, system thinking
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Gerald Suarez on Creating the Future
I was lucky enough to be hired by Gerald Suarez to work for him at the White House Military Office. The webcast below is speech he gave at TedX Loyola Marymount. The illusion of knowledge is more dangerous that ignorance. … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Management, Systems thinking, webcast
Tagged Books, Career, change, management webcast, planning, Psychology, system thinking, TED
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Your Brain Can Jump to Incorrect Conclusions
How our brain works without us realizing it often is hugely beneficial, but it also creates some faulty conclusions at times. The video gives a good synopsis of the quick intuitive leaps our brains make all the time. These are … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Psychology
Tagged learning, Psychology, system thinking, theory of knowledge
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Problems With Student Evaluations as Measures of Teacher Performance
Dr. Deming was, among other things a professor. He found the evaluation of professors by students an unimportant (and often counterproductive measure) – used in some places for awards and performance appraisal. He said for such a measure to be … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Education, Performance Appraisal, Psychology, Science
Tagged Customer focus, Data, Deming, Education, experiments, Performance Appraisal, Psychology, Science, system thinking
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Performance Appraisals are Worse Than a Waste of Time
Appraisals are a waste of Time Most British workers will certainly leave their appraisal fired up and motivated, but only to look for a new job, new research from workplace and HR body Investors in People has concluded. Nearly half … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Performance Appraisal, Psychology, Respect
Tagged Deming, Performance Appraisal, respect for people, system thinking, UK
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Ackoff’s New Book: Management f-Laws
Russell Ackoff is in London promoting his new book: Management f-Laws (see previous post: Ackoff’s F-laws: Common Sins of Management). A BBC article captures some of some of the great ideas from one of his talks (more articles… by Ackoff). … Continue reading
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Tagged Ackoff, Books, organization as a system, system thinking
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Encourage Improvement Action by Everyone
Centralizing decision making is not an effective way to manage organizations. Organizations need to encourage improvement by everybody in the organization. We need to create a system where that is encouraged and supported. However, there can be problems with just … Continue reading
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Tagged curiouscat, system thinking, tips
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Leadership and Management
I don’t think the attempts to separate leadership and management are useful. I read plenty of things that are variations on Peter Drucker’s: “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” A manager that is not concerned … Continue reading →