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Tag Archives: training
Web Seminar with Gerald Suarez: Better Thinking About Leadership
In2In offers some great opportunities for those interested in management improvement. Their conference is excellent. They also offer various conference calls with speakers knowledgeable about Deming and Ackoff’s ideas. These normally take the form of conference call presentations (similar to … Continue reading
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Tagged Ackoff, Deming, leadership, learning, Public Sector, seminar, training
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Deming Seminar in Singapore: New Philosophy of Management
The W. Edwards Deming Institute is working with the NTUC LearningHub to offer management seminars in Singapore. I will be co-facilitating at several seminars in Singapore with Kelly Allan and Kevin Cahill next month. The 2 1/2 day Seminar, Deming’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Asia, Deming, John Hunter, Lean thinking, management, seminar, Singapore, training
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Learn Lean by Doing Lean
In response to: Developing Your Lean Education Plan [the broken link was removed] If you actually let the lean leaders practice lean management you are probably doing more to help them learn than anything else. Reading is great, but 10 … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Education, Lean thinking, Management, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged Career, coaching, curiouscat, Education, John Hunter, Lean thinking, management, managing people, respect for people, Systems thinking, training
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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
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Tagged control chart, Data, Deming, Fun, management, management experts, Performance Appraisal, Psychology, Quality tools, training, variation, webcast
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Hire People You Can Trust to Do Their Job
How great companies turn crisis into opportunity The right people don’t need to be managed. The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. The right people don’t think they have a job: They … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Management Articles, Psychology, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged coaching, hiring, jobs, Management Articles, managing people, training
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Idle Workers Busy at Toyota
Idle Workers Busy at Toyota Instead of sending the workers home, as the Detroit makers often do, Toyota is keeping them at the plants, though. The employees spend their days in training sessions designed to sharpen their job skills and … Continue reading
Webcast on 2-Bin Systems
Illustration of how 2-Bin Systems work, by Bill Hanover. Related: Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) video by Bill Hanover – Messiness is Bad – Drum-Buffer-Rope Example – lean manufacturing resources
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Tagged management tools, Manufacturing, training, webcast
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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
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
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Tagged curiouscat, Education, Joel Spolsky, long term thinking, Management, Software Development, training
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