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20 Most Popular Posts on the Curious Cat Management Blog in 2015

Curious Cat

The Purpose of an Organization (2005). Life Balance (2015). No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development (2010). Visual Management and Mistake-Proofing for Prescription Pills (2015). What to Do To Create a Continual Improvement Culture (2015). All Data is Wrong, Some is Useful (2015).

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20 Most Popular Posts on the Curious Cat Management Blog in 2016

Curious Cat

The Purpose of an Organization (2005). Deming and Software Development (2014) *. Building a Great Software Development Team (2014). * 5 of the top ten this year were also in the top 10 in 2014 and 2015. 5 of the top ten this year were also in the top 10 in 2014 and 2015. Stated Versus Revealed Preference (2013).

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New Year Entertainment: Predictions, Forecasts, and Projections

The Practical Leader

It was 200 gigawatts and reached 370 by 2015. Sir Alan Sugar, a British business magnate, and media personality said in 2005, “Next Christmas the iPod will be dead, finished, gone, kaput.” These transformations are vital to continuous change and development in our unpredictable and fast-changing world.

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White Americans’ Mortality Rates Are Rising. Something Similar Happened in Russia from 1965 to 2005

Harvard Business Review

In 2015 Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton published a stunning finding : The mortality rates for working-age white Americans have been rising since 1999. For mortality rates to rise instead of fall is extremely rare in developed countries except as a result of war or pandemic. and 0.9%, respectively, per year.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

Americans — and American companies — have also connected the dots between clean energy and economic growth, with 87% last year saying that developing clean energy should be a priority for the President and Congress. After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels.

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What Makes New Orleans a Startup City to Rival the “Big Three”

Harvard Business Review

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, New Orleans was a place where too many people accepted that the city’s zenith had passed over 150 years ago. In 2011, demographer Joel Kotkin developed a list of the U.S.’s This, coupled with relative affordability, makes it a place people want to call home.

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China's Impending Slowdown Just Means It's Joining the Big Leagues

Harvard Business Review

That''s been the finding of economists Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Kwanjo Shin of Korea University in Seoul in two recent studies of growth slowdowns in emerging markets around the world. Remember, these difficulties are the fruits of success.

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