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Establishing Forums to Build a Quality Oriented Culture

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Establishing Forums to Build a Quality Oriented Culture Total Quality Management (TQM) says that quality is everybody’s job. TQM is not just a philosophy. Each individual’s approach to work, understanding of quality and personal standards of excellence are crucial for delivering quality.

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What would I do? An exercise in Finding-Your-Passion

Chartered Management Institute

Most of us have fallen into our career. While the proportion of vocational to non- vocational degrees fluctuates, most people still end up in a career that just happened. Fundamentally, though, most of us fall into a career without understanding why. This is an exercise to help break free of the assumptions behind this.

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Why Dr. Deming’s Work is So Important to Me

Deming Institute

We argued with him, citing our understanding of Deming and the modern quality approach, including the Taguchi loss function, as we had studied in our TQM class. To this day, I say (only half-jokingly) that learning about Deming was both the best thing and the worst thing that ever happened in my career.

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Job hunting - the single most effective thing to do

Chartered Management Institute

There's one simple thing, that most senior executives (most people generally) don't do when they are looking for a job. They don't do it out of fear - and that fear is misguided - or, I suppose, out of shame. In today's job hunt we depend on our informal network of personal ambassadors to help unearth possibilities.

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Observing human behaviour - when we choose to intervene and when we don't

Chartered Management Institute

What are the fantasies and fears, projections, and stereotypes that influence our behaviour in situations like this? Which ones help us survive today and which are legacies from our cave-man ancestors? When does our sense of outrage provoke us to act? When does our sense of decorum prevent us?

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What's in a personal value and what are mine?

Chartered Management Institute

In his address to Stanford Graduates in 2005, Steve Jobs said; "And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition". When we have an intuitive response to something it is often our personal values that are being touched upon.

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I'd expected more headhunters to call

Chartered Management Institute

Don't wait for headhunters to call - if you're a senior executive looking for a job and they haven't already then it is too late. You need to drive the process - with the right approach and the right effort almost anyone (though I am personally concerned with senior executives) can land a role and do so quickly.