QAspire
OCTOBER 24, 2010
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Deming Institute
JANUARY 5, 2017
We argued with him, citing our understanding of Deming and the modern quality approach, including the Taguchi loss function, as we had studied in our TQM class. To this day, I say (only half-jokingly) that learning about Deming was both the best thing and the worst thing that ever happened in my career.
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Chartered Management Institute
MARCH 24, 2012
Most of us have fallen into our career. While the proportion of vocational to non- vocational degrees fluctuates, most people still end up in a career that just happened. Fundamentally, though, most of us fall into a career without understanding why. This is an exercise to help break free of the assumptions behind this.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 30, 2013
Then we got talking about the odometer on my Nissan Pathfinder: Is a car that can go 300,000 miles a case of over-engineering or TQM excellence? And it might be good for your career. The sight of gas pumps whose nozzles were covered with bags was a case of poor demand forecasting within the supply chain.
Chartered Management Institute
JUNE 5, 2012
There's one simple thing, that most senior executives (most people generally) don't do when they are looking for a job. They don't do it out of fear - and that fear is misguided - or, I suppose, out of shame. In today's job hunt we depend on our informal network of personal ambassadors to help unearth possibilities.
Chartered Management Institute
JUNE 11, 2012
What are the fantasies and fears, projections, and stereotypes that influence our behaviour in situations like this? Which ones help us survive today and which are legacies from our cave-man ancestors? When does our sense of outrage provoke us to act? When does our sense of decorum prevent us?
Chartered Management Institute
MAY 15, 2012
In his address to Stanford Graduates in 2005, Steve Jobs said; "And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition". When we have an intuitive response to something it is often our personal values that are being touched upon.
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