Psychology
By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. In response to our request asking what topics readers would like to see addressed on our blog, Dan Bracewell said: I’d like to see some posts about how to implement change in an organization. How does one get an organization to start looking at itself as a system? How […]
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By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. This is a very interesting interview with W. Edwards Deming by Bill Scherkenbach (recording in February 1984, during this time Bill Scherkenbach worked at Ford and Deming was consulting with Ford). In this post I continue to explore this powerful video; it is part two of: Bill Scherkenbach’s Interview […]
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By John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Meetings are often frustrating for those spending time sitting through them. The solutions proposed for this issue often seem not very well thought out to me. The various traits (frequency, length, detailed agendas or not etc.) of meetings are useful or harmful depending on the […]
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By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Presentation by Michael King and Jane Kovacs at the 2015 Deming in Education conference – Finding Joy In Learning: Applying Deming’s Theory to Schools. The speakers work for Quality Learning Australasia (QLA). QLA’s website has quite a bit of useful information. One of the tools they used in the […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Joshua Macht wrote an article for the Harvard Business Review (published in June) : The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten. In that article he explores the importance of Dr. Deming’s ideas today. He quotes from the response W. Edwards Deming […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. We have another Deming Institute podcast with David Langford, to share with you – Where is all the Joy? (download podcast). David explains that when looking to improve the place to begin is to examine your circle of influence and determine where you have […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). One of the reasons quotes by W. Edwards Deming are so popular is that he had an incredible understanding of the practice of management. Another reason they are popular is he had a sense of humor that was captured well in several […]
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Travis Timmons, owner of Fitness Matters, describes the company’s Deming Transformation that took them from chaos to stability – and unprecedented success.
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). In this presentation at the Reliability Conference Joyce Orsini discusses the Leadership Principles of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Joyce in an emeritus Board Member of The W. Edwards Deming Institute, editor of The Essential Deming, and Director of the former Deming Scholars […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Silos to Systems: Our Journey to World Class – presentation by Lisa Snyder at the First Annual Deming in Education conference. In one of the videos included in the presentation we hear this quote In this model you really are a team […]
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