Psychology

Deming’s Stage 0: By What Method?

By John Hunter / December 3, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Ron Moen’s presentation at The W. Edwards Deming Institute 2014 conference – Deming’s Stage 0: By What Method? Ron talks about W. Edwards Deming teaching a 2 week course on consumer research in Japan in 1951: that course included a section titled “the art of questioning and interviewing.” Dr. […]

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Current Neuroscience Understanding Related to Psychology and the Theory of Knowledge

By John Hunter / November 12, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Presentation by Ed Chaplin MD at our 2015 Deming Institute annual conference – It Takes An Enterprise: Current Neuroscience and Knowledge of Psychology This is really a great talk that does a great job of illustrating the importance of understanding how our brains work […]

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Paula Marshall’s Presentation at Our 2015 Conference on Using Deming’s Ideas at The Bama Companies

By John Hunter / November 2, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Paula Marshall, CEO of The Bama Companies, tells us about her experiences with Dr. Deming and his influence on the family business in her presentation at out 2015 annual conference. Also see Paula’s presentation at the 2014 Deming Conference Webcast. Speaking of […]

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Riding a Bike and the Theory of Knowledge

By John Hunter / September 24, 2015 / 1 Comment

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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Alfie Kohn on Systems Thinking, Human Behavior and Education

By John Hunter / September 17, 2015 / 0 Comments

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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People Copy Examples and Wonder Why They Don’t Succeed

By John Hunter / September 10, 2015 / 0 Comments

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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Discovering Deming: Cultural Evolution at Pluralsight

By John Hunter / May 5, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Keith Sparkjoy – Discovering Deming: Cultural Evolution at Pluralsight from The W. Edwards Deming Institute 2014 Annual Conference. Enjoy Keith Sparkjoy’s presentation at the 2014 W. Edwards Deming Institute conference – Discovering Deming: Cultural Evolution at Pluralsight using the webcast above. Once you understand […]

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Deming Podcast: Andrea Gabor on Management at Ford, GM and the USA Education System

By John Hunter / August 28, 2014 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). In this episode of The W. Edward Deming Institute Podcast (download) Andrea Gabor begins by discussing her book The Man Who Discovered Quality: How W. Edwards Deming Brought the Quality Revolution to America – The Stories of Ford, Xerox, and GM. And […]

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Knowledge About Psychology for Managers, from Dan Ariely

By John Hunter / March 31, 2014 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). One of the four cornerstones of Dr. Deming’s management system is an understanding of psychology. Dr. Deming continued to learn and adapt based on the latest research and what to continually improve his ideas on management. To stay true to his vision, […]

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Lessons From the Red Bead Experiment with Dr. Deming

By John Hunter / March 10, 2014 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. The lessons that can be illustrated using the Red Bead experiment are too many to include in this post. But we can touch on a few of the ideas. The value of the Red Bead Experiment is to provide focus to your thinking. It is hard to believe what […]

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