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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! J ohn Hunter presents Rethinking or Moving Beyond Deming Often Just Means Applying More of What Dr. Deming Actually Said posted at Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog , saying, "This post takes a look at how Dr. Deming's ideas apply to management issues today.".

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2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl – Need Any Country be Poor?

Deming Institute

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Roger starts by discussing some areas of Deming’s work that are not getting the focus they deserve. I also want to talk about Deming’s emphasis on the big picture, the big problems.

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

Deming Institute

Stephen Covey similarly described this concept using the metaphor of a ladder, stating, ”Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall” (Covey, 2011). To that end, Dr. Deming might well ask, “By what method” can we determine the “right” things to do?

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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. Powered by WordPress.

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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. Edwards Deming Institute [The Institute makes 5 travel grants available each year to study the Deming Collection at the Library of Congress. I was also invited to attend to the Deming Institute Annual Fall conference in Los Angeles.

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The Professional: Seven New Rules

Strategy Driven

The concept of inclusion in business started when Quality gurus like Deming asked Americans to drop the ‘product-out’ mentality and instead practice a ‘customer-in’ mindset. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. To read Subroto’s complete biography, click here. Consider leaving a comment!

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The 'Invisibles' in Business Performance

QAspire

Edwards Deming is widely famous for “Deming’s 14 points” and “Seven Deadly Diseases”. One of these deadly disease according to Deming is “ Running a company on visible figures alone ”. Deming opined that everything that is critical for business performance may not be measurable. Well said, Tanmay!

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