Deming Institute

MAY 18, 2020

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Many post in our blog provide ideas for what to do to improve, if you make the time to work on continual improvement. When We Understand Our Work and We are Given the Ability to Improve It – We Will. Jim Benson.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 20, 2020

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). This is the sixth post in our Deming on Management series. View our previous Deming on Management posts , including: Appreciation for a System, the PDSA Cycle, and Psychology. Blog posts. Edwards Deming’s ideas.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Plus, Goodreads is a great way to stay current with the literature in your field; you can find other managers or people with similar jobs and follow their reviews, updates and reading lists. Sometimes as leaders we can get farther and farther away from the team members we manage, and as a result, we don’t hear the things we should.

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Management Craft

AUGUST 1, 2012

Management Craft just turned eight years old this month. This means that I have been blogging for egith years - that's just crazy. I have been thinking for a few years about doing a "best of" book with only the cream of the crop pieces from this blog. The Very Best from the Management Craft Blog 2004-2012.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). In this conversation with Nicole Luisi of Aileron, Terri Bullock, Vice President of the Wood River Women’s Foundation , shares how she has improved herself and her organization with Deming principles.

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Management Craft

AUGUST 4, 2012

The Very Best from the Management Craft Blog 2004-2012. A few days ago I told you all about my new "best of" collection available with the best 69 posts from the last eight years from this blog. If you have enjoyed the blog, I ask that you support this project. Download the PDF Version here - $10.00.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A KEY PREDICTOR of entrepreneurial success is a leader’s ability to manage relationships with investors, employees, and customers. Relationships are negotiations. We all negotiate. How well we learn to negotiate can be the difference between success and failure. use of first or last names, seating arrangements, etc.).

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

My first leadership role came in my mid-20s, when I accepted a position as a manager. In 2004, I was given the opportunity to buy a company, and my wife Lori and I decided to run it based on servant leadership principles. I want to share with you the difference between Art, the young leader of the past, and the leader I am today.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 10, 2018

Early in our success I was told that when we reached a revenue level of around $50 million, the management team would need to be upgraded to one with experience in running that size company. Servant leadership is not a designed program, nor is it the latest fad in management.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

He has been recognized as one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers, HR’s most influential international thinkers, the world’s 40 best business professors under 40, and Malcolm Gladwell’s favorite social science writers. James DaSilva – James is a senior editor at SmartBrief and manages SmartBlog on Leadership.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 1, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Edwards Deming Institute offers events for those interested in applying Deming’s management ideas in their organizations. Leading with a Systems View: Deming Management Method for Owners and Executives.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Teresa Amabile and Steve Kramer for the Harvard Business Review blog. Artwork: The Big Mobile (2004), 3rd Biennial of Contemporary Art [.]. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). But using those tools well within a well designed management system provides great value. Part 2 of True Improvement vs Illusion of Progress a presentation by Peter Scholtes. See our post on part 1 of the presentation.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Fortunately, the effect can also be reversed as research shows that working in the vicinity of a positive leader, makes you positive (Goleman, Biyatzis, McKee, 2004). Even managers told me they couldn’t change their dreadful workdays! Executives prefer to control employees to deliver the highest possible output in the short term.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 1, 2016

This month we are featuring Leading Voice Mary Schaefer , a coach, trainer, consultant and speaker who helps develop a culture of engagement and empowerment with tech managers and employees. in Human Resource Management from the University of Charleston. Mary has a B.S. in Computer Science from Indiana State University and an M.S.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The original study, published in 2004, included 86,000 people. Ask: Ask people “How can I be a better (manager, partner, team member, etc.)? In this week’s video blog, I go through the entire process and detail each of these steps to explain how this process works and how you can use it yourself. How does it work?

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Tony Mayo

OCTOBER 19, 2010

“In a 2004 study, men limited to only four hours of sleep a night reported increased appetite and showed hormonal changes consistent with increased hunger…sleep loss can wreak havoc with a person’s endocrine system, the hormones that control appetite and metabolism.&# Science Life Blog « University of Chicago Medical Center.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Change is Like a Slinky: 30 Strategies for Promoting and Surviving Change in Your Organization (2004) by Hans Finzel. The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make (2004) by Hans Finzel. References: Toy Box Leadership: Leadership Lessons from the Toys You Loved as a Child (2009) by Ron Hunter and Michael Waddell.

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Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings Nine Steps for Creating and Maintaining Team Ownership of Ideas and Goals Blogs I Like Get Uncomfortable! I reprise it today for three reasons. Please read this and take the message to heart. Your team deserves it. In this morning’s Wall Street Journal, Franklin Lavin, U.S.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Leadership is About Engagement by Kevin Eikenberry on December 29, 2010 in Leadership , Learning , Relationships Ok, this title should be self evident, especially to long time readers of this blog.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 2, 2010

The result of the poor leadership and management includes mismarked graves, unmarked graves, split graves and at least four burial urns that somehow ended up in a landfill. The mess at Arlington reminds me of three truths that are critical to the effective management of any organization. When everyone's in charge, no one is.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). By working with a consultant, Kelly Allan , they were able to bring in outside knowledge and achieve new gains and sustain a continually improvement management system. When they started their efforts.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Mauboussin is Chief LMCM in 2004, Michael was Chief U.S. Investment Strategist at Credit Suisse. Michael joined CS in 1992 as a packaged food industry analyst, and was repeatedly named to Institutional Investor‘s All-America Research Team and The Wall Street Journal All-Star survey.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 16, 2012

Cavanagh (Foreword) Jossey-Bass/Leader to Leader Institute; 1st edition (2004) How to develop leaders who have character, competence, knowledge, and results-driven initiative I recently re-read this book, curious to know [.]. Shinseki (Introduction), and Richard E.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). In a previous post, Four Days with Dr. Deming I discussed the impact the 4 day seminar had on many attendees (and also mentioned the excellent book Four Days with Dr. Deming: A Strategy for Modern Methods of Management ).

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. Example 4: Twitter.com gives me a great sense of other people’s personalities and interests in a micro-blog format. It’s an excellent broadcasting service.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 13, 2011

The Toyota Way Jeffrey Liker McGraw-Hill (2003) To understand Toyota’s success, first understand its DNA I read this book when it was first published in 2004 and recently re-read it, curious to know how well Jeffrey Liker’s explanation of Toyota’s management principles and lean production values have held up.

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Deming Institute

MAY 20, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Barbara does a good job of explaining how copying the most visible aspects of companies applying Deming’s management methods doesn’t allow you to transform another organization. ” – W. Edwards Deming.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

McClelland’s findings in a 1996 study showed that “when senior managers had a critical mass of Emotional Intelligence capabilities, their divisions outperformed yearly earning goals by 20%. The post Five Reasons WHY Leaders Need Emotional Intelligence Training appeared first on Situational Leadership® Management and Leadership Training.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). At points the talk does get into statistics beyond what many of those reading this blog are likely to need, but if that is true for you it is easy enough to ignore those sections.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Every two years, the Thinkers50 publishes their definitive list of management thinkers. Below are the results for 2011. For classic HBR content from this year’s winners, please click here. Christensen is the Kim B.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

You dont have to give up because youve been down a lot of times.&# - Ray Charles, American singer-composer (1930-2004) Once you give up, the game is over. Thursday, November 4, 2010 Perseverance - Three Things to Remember when Bad Things Happen “Id like people to know that you can recover from life adversity.

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Deming Institute

MAY 20, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Barbara does a good job of explaining how copying the most visible aspects of companies applying Deming’s management methods doesn’t allow you to transform another organization. ” – W. Edwards Deming.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

In 2004 the Corporate Executive Board’s research showed an 87% decrease in the likelihood of departure for highly engaged employees. With input from their managers, peers, and teams, leaders know what they need to focus on when it comes to their development. A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 16, 2011

Aaker Free Press (2004) Note: I read this book when it was first published and recently re-read it. Brand Portfolio Strategy: Creating Relevance, Differentiation, Energy, Leverage, and Clarity David A. If anything, Aaker’s insights are even more valuable now than they were then.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 23, 2011

Anyway, this blog is about the slogans below. Ironically, this slogan was not created by an ad agency but by an Allstate sales manager in 1950. We bring good things to life lasted from 1981 until 2004 with a changing of GE’s executive guard. In my view, they are as close to perfect as you can get. Just do it.

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Management Craft

JULY 27, 2012

I am putting together a collection of the "best of" posts for Management Craft. This August, this wee blog will begin its 9th year. And in the 8 years I have been blogging, a few predictable tones and hues keep popping up. I downloaded a complete backup of the blog as a Word document and it was 6,000 pages long.

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