Dr. Deming
By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Point 10 on W. Edwards Deming’s list of 14 Points for western management: Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the […]
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By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Point 7 in Dr. Deming’s 14 obligations of management: Institute leadership (see point 12 and Chapter 8 in Out of the Crisis). The aim of supervision should be to help people and machines and gadgets to do a better job. Supervision of management is in need of overhaul, as […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. We have added images to our W. Edwards Deming quote web site. Each quote has two image styles to chose from. And the images include a link to the page on our web site that provides context for the quote along with links to […]
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By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. The most popular videos on The W. Edwards Deming Institute You Tube channel are, not surprisingly, those with Dr. Deming in them. The videos with the most views since they have been added are: Dr. Deming – The 5 Deadly Diseases (1984): 104,715 views (added 6 years ago). W. […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. The Deming Institute has arranged to have a Chinese language version of W. Edwards Deming’s classic, Out of the Crisis, published. You may order the book online. An excerpt from the forward (by Kevin Cahill and Kelly Allan) to this new Chinese edition of […]
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By John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. It is very hard for us today to remember (or learn if we are too young) what the situation was like in 1980 (see the bottom of the post for some data on the economy at that time). Specifically two areas were very different back […]
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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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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 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 […]
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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 […]
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