Mike Cardus

MARCH 31, 2019

Follow up is what good managers do, you follow up for 2 reasons : People are doing what they are supposed to be doing. Using this information with a team , we continued to develop some project and team leader processes to build the follow-up process. It turns out that the lack of follow up is pervasive , and many managers are busy.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen, and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed.

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QAspire

JANUARY 13, 2020

In less than 200 pages, the authors try to cover many things like ageing, food, yoga, tai chi, stress management, concept of flow state, stories about centenarians from Okinawa in Japan, resilience, meditation and antifragility. Dr. Deming on Joy of Work, Innovation and Leadership. Craftsman Spirit.

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QAspire

MAY 18, 2015

Having worked in Quality management role for a long time, I could not have afforded to miss insights from Dr. W. Edwards Deming whose thinking was way ahead of time. Dr. Deming is remembered for transforming Japan into a formidable business competitor through his management and leadership practices, especially Deming’s 14 principles.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Tom Peters defined this as “Management by Wandering Around”. Gemba allows leaders and improvement managers to appreciate what people really do on the floor and more importantly, how they do it. Edwards Deming said, “If you wait for people to come to you, you’ll only get small problems. You must go and find them.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

One manager said “ Sometimes you have to make an example of someone to show people that the change you want is going to happen.”. The managers nodded. The managers nodded…. Edwards Deming. Develop a shared language of the change and what "done" looks like; Step 2. Photo Credit. It is not an easy answer.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 20, 2020

Edwards Deming Institute You Tube channel has shared videos online for 10 years now. Edwards Deming: The 14 Points (171,000 total views all time – it has been online for 5 years). Dr. Deming – The 5 Deadly Diseases (1984) (152,000 – 10 years). Edwards Deming (108,000 – 5 years). Why Deming?

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Also download 25 Things Managers and Leaders Should Never Do [PDF] - - - - - Check out the latest edition of “Carnival of HR” at John Hunter’s Curious Cat Management Improvement blog. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL A very important topic brought forward. Don’t Kill It!

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Deming Institute

MARCH 4, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Edwards Deming Institute® and W. Edwards Deming’s grandson). This new 3rd Edition (published 25 years after the 1st edition) also includes a new chapter by Kelly Allan : “Why Deming? … Why Now More than Ever?”

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Deming Institute

MAY 6, 2019

We are happy that there are several blogs exploring the application of Deming’s ideas to management of organizations. The Deming SubReddit collects blog posts and other interesting resources on Deming’s management ideas. Blogs discussing Deming’s ideas that you may be interested in: The W.

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Deming Institute

MAY 7, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. This webcast shows Sarah Pavelka ’s presentation, Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. This is one good tactic to use when introducing new management ideas.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Quote from this amazing video “A Theory of a System for Educators and Managers” where Deming and Ackoff discuss quality transformation by developing an understanding of the properties and powers of systems-oriented thinking…you can the read the original post from Curious Cat Management Improvement. mike Tuesday, 9th.

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Art Petty

AUGUST 23, 2021

If you are a manager responsible for promoting and developing a new manager, the hard work begins during selection and continues long after in the form of observing, teaching, and coaching. There are no shortcuts to building the next generation of effective managers.

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Commitment Management Leadership Review 97

Deming Institute

JULY 17, 2017

Edwards Deming in Today’s IT, at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. Poorani explains how the management system drives behavior that is not useful to the organization. The business team asks for estimates for software development. The management system creates a punishment mechanism for missing estimates by over 10%.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Edwards Deming once wrote that a system needed to be managed, for without management the “parts” tend to act in their own interests and “sub-optimize” the system. However, Dr. Deming’s words are only the beginning of the journey to effective systems leadership/management.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Guest post by Bill Bellows, Member of The Deming Institute’s Advisory Council. The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. Edwards Deming to several dozen executives in Japan in 1950.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 4, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. This webcast shows Mike Tveite’s presentation, Deming 101, given at the 2012 Annual W. Edwards Deming Institute Conference. Edwards Deming’s The New Economics (page 94*): The system of profound knowledge provides a lens.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

There are many ways in which the management of our organizations needs to improve ( understanding how to use data effectively , systems thinking…) and one of those important areas is in managing people. Guest post by John Hunter , founder of curiouscat.com (in 1996). Both were excellent employees during that time.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 29, 2019

Guest post by Katie Groves, College Business Manager, College of Education and Human Development, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT. I learned that “Deming” is more than a man; it’s an idea, a way of life, a way of thinking about the world that you just have to be willing to be open to. April 3, 2019.

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Deming Institute

JULY 29, 2019

Since we shared the “Why Deming, Why Now” video with you last month, many of you have been asking questions about Deming Online. We are so excited to tell you more about this new online learning center that The Deming Institute is creating. WHAT IS THE AIM OF DEMING ONLINE? Deming is needed now more than ever.

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Deming Institute

JULY 29, 2019

Since we shared the “Why Deming, Why Now” video with you last month, many of you have been asking questions about Deming Online. We are so excited to tell you more about this new online learning center that The Deming Institute is creating. WHAT IS THE AIM OF DEMING ONLINE? Deming is needed now more than ever.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2015

The Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has announced the 2015 Deming Prize winners. One company was awarded the Deming Grand Prize this year: National Engineering Industries Limited (India). 3 years after a company has received the Deming Prize they may apply to the top prize. 2015 Deming Prize for Individuals.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

The Deming Dimension by Henry Neave provides good historical background and then a well presented explanation of Deming’s ideas on management. It is one of the best books to read to learn about Deming’s ideas. This can be done, but only by transformation of the style of management now practised.

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Deming Institute

JULY 27, 2015

Join us November 6 to 8 for the First Annual Deming in Education Conference at the Cedarbrook Lodge in Seattle, Washington. Edwards Deming will liberate fear and ignite passion in students and educators alike. Dr. Deming Video: A Theory of a System for Educators and Managers. See the agenda. Register for the conference.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Software code review is the practice of reviewing the software code written by colleagues on your software development team. Edwards Deming stated in Out of the Crisis: Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Do we need to update a software development checklist?

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Deming Institute

JUNE 15, 2020

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. This video shows part 3 of a Russell Ackoff presentation from 2003 on Systems Thinking and Management (see our previous post on part 1 and part 2 ). He discusses the importance of development versus just growth. Errors are punished.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 3, 2017

These posts were the most popular posts on the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog in 2016 (as measured by page views, as recorded by my analytics application). How to Manage What You Can’t Measure (2010) *. Managers Are Not Non-Leaders: Managers Need to Practice Things We Classify as Leadership Traits (2013) *.

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Management Excellence

AUGUST 23, 2021

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Commitment Management Leadership Deming 123

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 26, 2017

We call this approach Professional Management, and have developed a system to implement it influenced by Dr. W. Edwards Deming and other great thought leaders. Dr. Deming’s timeless teachings have been, and will continue to be, a driving influence because we see his philosophies work. Deming used the example of gravity.

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Curious Cat

JUNE 26, 2024

Quality is a Journey to Excellence is a 2 day management seminar that Bill Hunter (my father) recorded in 1985 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Some aspects of managing an organization well are quite challenging. That leads to increasing sales which provides more work for more employees (see the Deming Chain Reaction ).

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 17, 2019

We are so proud of this community, which is doing the important work of spreading the Deming teachings. Our revenue has grown by 60%… and an exciting result of the Deming approach is we were able to deliver that growth with significantly less time from our staff. Happy Holidays! – Stacy Sheldon, Aileron. The Partnership.

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

While most strategy development efforts focus on content – or what one thinks, strategic thinking is driven by how one thinks – ie., Edwards Deming, management expert, the “principle of anticipation and innovation — driven by the producer, not the customer — is the ultimate competitive advantage.”. For example ….

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

SMED your SME journey applying Deming principles – guest post by Luciana Paulise. For more than 10 years now I have been helping people to develop their own Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME). I applied for the Deming grant to learn more about him and be able to implement his teachings more accurately.

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Art Petty

JANUARY 4, 2023

There are some painful and painfully obvious leadership and management lessons from the recent Southwest Airlines debacle. Deming is spinning in his grave over this one. The post Hope Proved to Be a Bad Strategy for LUV—Lessons from the Southwest Airlines Debacle appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

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 with Dr. Deming. This is a very interesting interview with W.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Guest post by Michael Godfried: planner and policy analyst in Washington State and Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. Like Dr. Deming, age is no barrier to his continued intellectual vigor. Dr. Deming believed that organizations should seek excellence both in their outcomes and processes.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The 20 most popular post on our blog this year (by page views reported by our analytic tool): Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It (2015). 2015 Deming Prize Awardees (2015) *. Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities (2013). Dr. Deming Called for the Elimination of The Annual Performance Appraisal (2012).

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