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2017 ASA Deming Lecture, W. Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician

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Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. 2017 ASA Deming Lecture, W. Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician, by Fritz Scheuren , NORC-University of Chicago. Edwards Deming the man and Deming’s ideas. That’s the way people understood Deming.

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Annual Performance Evaluations are a Poor Management Practice

Curious Cat

Sports provides visible examples of the futility of accurate performance appraisal. We have athletes who thousands of people devote a huge amount of time to dissecting their strengths and weaknesses and those evaluations are constantly shown to be wrong. Teams are constantly paying free agents tens of millions that completely flop.

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

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Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. An understanding of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge provides new lenses * to view the world. And that clear vision can help managers lead their organizations more effectively. Related: Do You See What I See by Bill Bellows – W.

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Gipsie Ranney

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Edwards Deming. She spent decades advocating Deming’s philosophy and helping people across the world with its application. Edwards Deming Institute. She co-authored Beyond Total Quality Management: Toward the Emerging Paradigm , and also contributed to Competing Globally Through Customer Value. Gipsie Ranney.

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

Deming Institute

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. An understanding of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge provides new lenses * to view the world. And that clear vision can help managers lead their organizations more effectively. Related: Do You See What I See by Bill Bellows – W.

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Improving Management Globally

Curious Cat

On the matter of the importance of promoting better management practices worldwide I agree there is a huge amount of work to be done. And there is a huge vacuum of resources for managers looking for information on how to do better. It is much worse when you aim to influence a global audience. ASQ can help fill that need.

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When We Understand Our Work and We are Given the Ability to Improve It – We Will

Deming Institute

Jim Benson’s presentation at our 2015 International Deming Research Seminar explored how to manage the workload better to improve results. Companies that understand this important idea have a big advantage over those that retain a theory x management system that they believe is needed to control people.

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