John Hunter
By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Dr. Deming was constantly learning from others. He also pointed out that we can be led astray by failing to understand data. This quote, included in Out of the Crisis (page 394), shows both of those traits and illustrates a common trap of performance appraisal – using evidence that […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). The 20th Annual International Deming Research Seminar will be held 3-4 March 2014 in New York City. Dr. W. Edwards Deming created a revolutionary Theory of Management that is applied in the best-run organizations in the world. He integrated knowledge from psychology, […]
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By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. People are part of the system; they need help… Many people think of machinery and data processing when I mention system. Few of them know that recruitment, training, supervision, and aids to production workers are part of the system. – W. Edwards Deming on page 366 of Out of […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Clare Crawford Mason published this interview, with Dr. Deming, at the time of her NBC broadcast, If Japan Can Why Can’t We (1980). ‘Made in Japan’ Is No Joke Now, Thanks to Edwards Deming: His New Problem Is ‘Made in U.S.A.’: Does job security […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). The photo gallery on the new website for The W. Edwards Deming Institute includes quite a few photos looking back at Dr. Deming’s life. Seeing the photos from when he was younger is interesting since so many of the images (and videos) […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. The quotes of Dan Pink from the webcast are backed by decades of research and support W. Edwards Deming’s views on managing people. “We are not as endlessly manipulatable and predictable as you would think.” “Once a task called for even rudimentary cognitive skill […]
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By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. The Annual Deming Institute Fall Conference will be held at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA this year. Friday, October 18 there will be an evening of networking from 6 PM to 9 PM. There will be a full day of sessions on Saturday and morning sessions on […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Joe Dager has posted another Business 901 podcast with a leading Deming management authority, this time with Brian Joiner, author of Fourth Generation Management, co-author of the Team Handbook and long time colleague of Dr. Deming. Early in Brian’s career he shared an office […]
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By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Update: The Deming Scholar program is no longer in existence The Deming Scholar MBA students at Fordham University are looking for internship opportunities within your organization. Dr. W. Edwards Deming believed in inspiring people to think differently, ask better questions and seek new knowledge. He thought this was important […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Mark Graban interviewed Clare Crawford-Mason for his Lean Blog podcast. Clare produced If Japan Can… Why Can’t We?, Deming Library video series and Good News… How Hospitals Heal Themselves. She discussed quite a few important ideas including: The value of cooperation (that […]
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