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Fond Farewells: Remembering Bill Latzko, Tom Nolan, and Bill Ratcliff

Deming Institute

Dear Deming Community, Please join us in honoring the lives of these three men, who made countless contributions to the Deming community and society at large. A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Latzko spent most of his career in quality control as a manager, consultant, and educator. May they rest in peace. Latzko, Ph.D.

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How To Manage Poor Performance

LDRLB

At some point in your career as a manager, you’re going to have to manage a poor performing employee. Edwards Deming, the legendary organizational psychologist. Deming had a principle he called the 85/15 rule. As Deming liked to say “A bad system will beat a good person every time.”.

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Deming’s Ideas in Action: Trader Joe’s Culture

Deming Institute

An understanding of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge provides new lenses * to view the world. We plan to use this blog to explore examples of management action today (using the lens of Deming’s ideas to view those actions) in order to help illustrate how Deming’s ideas can be put into practice.

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Fond Farewells: Remembering Bill Latzko, Tom Nolan, and Bill Ratcliff

Deming Institute

Dear Deming Community, Please join us in honoring the lives of these three men, who made countless contributions to the Deming community and society at large. A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Latzko spent most of his career in quality control as a manager, consultant, and educator. May they rest in peace. Latzko, Ph.D.

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The November, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Joel Garfinkle , from Career Advancement Blog shows us how to Take on High-Visibility Projects without Doubling Your Workload. Edwards Deming Institute Blog , serves up Appreciation for a System in the Deming Context. " Edwards Deming Institute Blog , serves up Appreciation for a System in the Deming Context. "

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Two Tweets & A Blog

Deming Institute

Guest blog by Bob Browne , author of Sys-Tao – Western Logic and Eastern Flow and former Chairman and CEO of the Great Plains Coca-Cola Bottling Company. Edwards Deming. In today’s world “Understanding Relationship’s” might be an easier way for us westerners to understand what Deming was trying to tell us.

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On Disrupting Yourself

QAspire

He was smart enough to understand that the company needed people in a new project that was to be developed on a totally different technology. In this episode of What’s Next podcast, one of my favorite authors and thinkers Whitney Johnson says, “Not just products, services and companies, the fundamental unit of disruption is an individual.”.

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