Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

Speaking of continuous improvement, my GM plant also had a very traditional “suggestion system,” not a Kaizen-style approach to improvement. The Livonia Philosophy (as written, not practiced) also sounds like Lean in the goal of utilizing of all people’s skill and creativity, as we practice in the Kaizen model.

Kaizen 28

Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

After escaping GM, I had an opportunity to attend graduate school at MIT, to study operations management, system dynamics, and other topics. 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. More about that in a later post in this series.

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Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. “Our instructors were teaching better, and our students were learning better,” Webb noted in The Red Circle , his 2012 SEAL memoir.

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Training Education Incentives Leadership 8