Month: September 2015
By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). The French Deming Association has a mission to implement the management theory designed by Deming. They offer The New Economics and Out of the Crisis in French as well as other related books. Their web site also offers several interesting papers including: […]
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By John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Theory of knowledge, how we know what we know, is an area that is difficult for most people to understand and see the value of. But it is very powerful and impacts and interacts with all the other aspects of the Deming management system (psychology, […]
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The purpose of creating constancy of purpose is to maximize the benefits to the organization of the other facets of Deming’s management system. It is not an end, it is the means to an end.
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Alfie Kohn, author of Punished by Rewards, No Contest: the Case Against Competition and many other books on human behavior, management and education is the guest on this Deming Podcast. Alfie explains that, as a contrarian, he searched for issues where logic and research […]
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By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Deming Institute Workshop – Leading With A Systems View 6 to 8 October 2015 Tipp City, Ohio, USA The W. Edward Deming Institute® is excited to facilitate a two-and-a-half day workshop to further implement the System of Profound Knowledge in your business. Through small group breakouts, work session and […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing. W. Edwards Deming in The Deming of America. See a longer quote with more context. We can learn from looking at […]
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