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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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Jim Benson on Applying Deming’s Ideas to Knowledge Work

By John Hunter / August 10, 2015 / 0 Comments

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 […]

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Using Deming’s Management Ideas at an Auto Repair Company for the Last 30 Years

By John Hunter / June 1, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Louis Altazan, President of AGCO Automotive Corporation discusses the success AGCO has had applying Deming’s management system to their service organization (car repair). Listen to the podcast. Auto repair is basically finding root cause. If you don’t find the root cause, the problem is […]

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Deming Podcast with Dr. Bret Champion, Superintendent of the Leander Independent School District

By John Hunter / May 11, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Dr. Bret Champion, Superintendent of the Leander Independent School District (ISD) in Texas joins us for the latest Deming Institute Podcast (download the podcast). Bret discusses Leander ISD’s efforts from the perspective of his 22 year journey as a teacher through his current role. In describing the Leander Way […]

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Deming Podcast with Gordon McGilton

By John Hunter / April 20, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Gordon McGilton, director of a private equity fund with investment in multiple industries, discusses applying Deming’s management ideas at the companies they invest in. (download the podcast). Gordon will be presenting the 4 Day Deming seminar with Heero Hacquebord 27 to 30 April in Columbus, Ohio. Gordon McGilton went […]

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Improving Student Achievement at the Urbandale Community School District

By John Hunter / April 9, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Dr. Doug Stilwell, Superintendent of the Urbandale Community School District discusses applying Deming management methods in education (download the podcast). As Dr. Deming said “The people are not the problem, it’s the system. Doug talks about how many initiatives (from the state legislature and […]

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Transforming the Organization – Deming Podcast with David Langford

By John Hunter / March 26, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. This is the 3rd Deming Institute podcast with David Langford: CEO and Founder of Langford International and Deming Institute Advisory Board member. Download the podcast. David begins by talking about why it is best to focus where you actually can have influence. It doesn’t do much good to worry […]

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Doug Hall on Using Systems Thinking to Power Strategy, Innovation and Growth

By John Hunter / March 16, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. In this podcast (download), Doug Hall, CEO and founder of Innovation Engineering and Eureka! Ranch shares his approach for taking Dr. Deming’s ideas systems thinking and applying that to strategy, innovation and growth. Doug shares the story of how his father introduced him to Dr. Deming and systems thinking […]

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Deming in Education: Education as a System

By John Hunter / February 16, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. In this podcast (download) David Langford becomes the first repeat guest. David is the CEO and founder of Langford International and a Deming Institute Advisory Board member. David continues discussing his thoughts on using Deming’s ideas to improve education. By looking at education as a system and examining what […]

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Keith Sparkjoy on Adopting the Deming Management System at Pluralsight

By John Hunter / February 2, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Keith Sparkjoy, Cofounder and Culture Coach of Pluralsight discusses his “awakening” on their journey to keep Pluralsight’s healthy culture as they rapidly expanded (download the podcast). Keith started by reading Out of the Crisis and thought it would be tough to use that book as a tool to convince […]

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