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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Andrea Gabor authored The Man Who Discovered Quality: How W. Edwards Deming Brought the Quality Revolution to America and has been studying education for years. This webcast shows Andrea’s presentation at the 2014 Annual Deming Conference: What Schools Can Learn from Dr. Deming’s Philosophy. Dr. Deming’s genius was that […]

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to be done with the data, then there is no use in collecting any. The ultimate purpose of taking data is to […]

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. The linked to article that aims to provides an overview of the essence of Deming’s approach to management and its continuing relevance to managers: The Model of Sustainable Organisation by Alan Clark. A manager, said Deming, is primarily a manager of People. This is in line with many thinkers, […]

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Dr. Deming referred to Alfie Kohn’s work and ideas when he was consulting, giving seminars and in The New Economics. Alfie Kohn will be a keynote speaker at our 1st annual Deming in Education Conference this November 6th to 8th in Seattle, Washington. In […]

By John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth.” – W. Edwards Deming, The New Economics. One of the quotes you will see quite frequently “incorrectly” attributed to Dr. Deming is, “If you can’t measure […]

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Jim Benson, founding partner of the Modus Cooperendi and co-author of Personal Kanban is the guest on this Deming Podcast. In the podcast Jim discusses how to apply Deming ideas to knowledge work. I was actively looking for a set of guiding principles around […]

By John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. The common objection to seniority pay is, “It’s rewarding dead wood!” My response is, “Why do you hire dead wood? Or why do you hire live wood and kill it?” Peter Scholtes, The Leader’s Handbook, page 331. Peter worked with Dr. Deming and presented at […]