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The November 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the November 6, 2011 edition of leadership development carnival! Michael Lee Stallard presents Develop the Heart of a Champion posted at Michael Lee Stallard. posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, "Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.".

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

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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Healthcare, Paradigm Shifts and the Influence of W.E. Deming

Deming Institute

I blogged about my experience in healthcare back in 2011 and described how my “hope level” for improvement in healthcare has gone up and down like a sine-wave pattern over the last 20-30 years. Dr. Deming is cited several times in the book, and the reader will find evidence of Dr. Deming’s thinking throughout the 180 pages of the book.

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

Curious Cat

One factor at a time (OFAT) Versus Factorial Designs (2011). The aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men (2011) *. Deming and Software Development (2014) *. Building a Great Software Development Team (2014). * Stated Versus Revealed Preference (2013). The Toyota Way – Two Pillars (2010).

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

Rather than seizing this as an opportunity to develop a new theory on which I might improve student engagement and learning, I focused not on what was on the minds of my students but on improving my pedagogy; reinforcing, perhaps, how to continue to do the wrong things – things that had no relevance for my students – better. References.

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Restaurant Week (An elementary look at quality culture fundamentals)

Deming Institute

Guest post by David Kachoui (previously published in Quality Progress, August 2014): Director of Business Development at Natech Plastics. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, defined quality as “pride in workmanship.” Deming, The New Economics, see reference 2, p. Parents were patrons. References.

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Improvement Comes From Destruction of Now.

Mike Cardus

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. All rights reserved. Leave a Reply

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