Deming Institute

JUNE 3, 2019

This is the first of a series of posts that will provide resources for those interested in particular topics (other topics will include: psychology, understanding variation, leadership and the red bead experiment). The Improvement Guide is the book anyone interested in learning about the PDSA cycle should read (and re-read).

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Edwards Deming Institute provides online access to a recording, from 1992, of Dr. Deming’s Four-Day Seminar. Edwards Deming presenting the Red Bead Experiment. Deming Institute Collection – Dr. Deming Institute Collection – Dr. Deming’s Four-Day Seminar (1992). Motivation.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 3, 2020

Guest blog post by Doug Stilwell, Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership at Drake University. This concept is reinforced by Mark Buchanan in his 2007 book entitled The Social Atom. Subscribe to our mailing list , where each week we’ll be rounding up stories of hope and inspiration related to Deming and the COVID-19 crisis.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

The Deming Dimension by Henry Neave provides good historical background and then a well presented explanation of Deming’s ideas on management. It is one of the best books to read to learn about Deming’s ideas. The book includes a forward by W.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Who is your favorite leadership role model? Thought Leaders Share Their Favorite Leadership Role Models. Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership suggests A. Edwards Deming, engineer and management consultant. “He clearly articulated the importance of building a management system that was effective and continually improving.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 4, 2019

Edwards Deming Institute® and W. Edwards Deming’s grandson). This new 3rd Edition (published 25 years after the 1st edition) also includes a new chapter by Kelly Allan : “Why Deming? Edwards Deming has also been published. You can use our Deming quotes website to view quotes from The New Economics.

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Deming Institute

MAY 26, 2016

2016 Deming Institute Annual Conference. Lean coffee session at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. Edwards Deming Institute®. September 16 – 18, 2016. Michigan State University. East Lansing, Michigan. Find more information and the registration form. Facilitators. Eric Budd, Improvement Coordinator at Peaker Services.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

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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Deming Institute

MAY 21, 2015

Edwards Deming. We hope this will be of use to people searching for quotes by Dr. Deming. The quotes are viewable by category , such as: leadership , managing people , systems thinking and data. Edwards Deming quotes database. We also provide quotes Dr. Deming attributed to others, with proper credit and sources provided.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 16, 2019

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.”. But as Deming would remind us, that’s likely only the case about 15% of the time. It’s helpful to remember the wise thoughts of W.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Edwards Deming. It also begs another question, “If the Japanese so easily understood what Deming was saying, why is it still so difficult for people in western societies to understand?”. 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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Deming Institute

MARCH 3, 2016

Point 7 in Dr. Deming’s 14 obligations of management : Institute leadership (see point 12 and Chapter 8 in Out of the Crisis ). The phrase “institute leadership” is difficult to understand without context. The phrase “institute leadership” is difficult to understand without context.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Leadership and the New Science: Learning about Organizations from an Orderly Universe by Margaret Wheatley does a good job of exploring how to view organizations as a system. This is not a book of conclusions, cases, or exemplary practices of excellent companies. instead results emerge from a system.

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LDRLB

JULY 13, 2010

Don’t be fooled by the title, the authors do NOT offer research support for their claim that leadership can make folks smarter. Despite its flaws, it is a good book. The book is very well written with excellent organization and a very conversational style. In fact, their research is full of halos and seriously flawed.

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Deming Institute

MAY 25, 2017

From Ed’s recently published book, The Symphony of Profound Knowledge: W. Edwards Deming’s Score for Leading, Performing, and Living in Concert , published in partnership with Aileron. Edwards Deming. Edwards Deming. Guest Blog by Edward Martin Baker. Foreword by the family of W. Music is a set of relationships.”

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QAspire

AUGUST 3, 2010

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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Curious Cat

JANUARY 12, 2016

These were the most popular quotes on the Curious Cat Management and Leadership Quotes web site in 2015 (based on page views). Edwards Deming. Edwards Deming. Edwards Deming. Edwards Deming. Follow the link on the quote text for the source and more information on the quote. – Taiichi Ohno. – Jack Ma.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 25, 2018

Of all of Deming ‘s work, I think the bit with the most potential impact is also the bit that Deming kept close to his vest because it doesn’t advocate company growth as an aim , and his clients would not have understood. Note that Deming does advocate personal growth, which I think of as development.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 30, 2017

See puzzles for every chapter of both books (and also chapter 1 of Sample Design in Business Research) on the Deming Cooperative website. Edwards Deming Institute, director of the Deming Scholars program at Fordham University and editor of The Essential Deming. Related: Leadership Principles of Dr. W.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. Ru ssell Ackoff had a profound capacity for using stories to educate his audiences about the basic concepts of managing systems, both in his lectures and in his books. He also had a profound way with words.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

Edwards Deming. I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I do remember my statistics professor saying something in class, in early 1994, right after Dr. Deming passed away. Why had I heard of Dr. Deming?

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Leadership’s demonstration of their philosophy and practice of ethical behavior impacts the whole organization in education, government or commercial enterprises. In the state’s task force report of causes for the long-lasting damage to its citizens, there was a system of causes driven by a focus on balancing the books for Flint.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

This guest post is an excerpt from Ed Baker’s book (pages 31-32), The Symphony of Profound Knowledge , which was created in partnership with Aileron.org. After a presentation to senior management of a large company, I was asked why they should believe me, and therefore why believe Deming. Leadership requires self-knowledge.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2018

Edwards Deming, warned us of this pitfall. He is the founder of the International Leadership Association’s Followership Learning Community and a member of the ILA board of directors. The following is an excerpt from Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You’re Told to Do is Wrong.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

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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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2017

This webcast shows Bjarne Wig’s presentation, The Transformation of Learning, at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. And the third is, apply systems leadership, Deming philosophy of leadership. Guest post by John Hunter. Educational institutions are becoming dinosaurs with regard to the need for continuous learning.

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Curious Cat

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Customer Focus with a Deming Perspective – User/Customer Gemba – Delighting Customers – The importance of customer focus – [link]. Related: Software Process and Measurement Podcast With John Hunter on my book Management Matters – Deming and Software Development. I hope you enjoy the podcast.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The Nobel Peace Prize winning president was a championship boxer at Harvard and the author of thirty-eight books. We learned the quality lessons of Edward Deming, Joseph Juran, and Phil Crosby as well as the lean thinking lessons of James Womack. Kevin and Jackie Freiberg’s great book, Nuts! Forestry Service.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Edwards Deming, The New Economics. Edwards Deming in Chapter 3 of his book, The New Economics , I asked the students to consider who would be included on the pacemaker “team” they had referenced. Can we continue to abdicate leadership and rely on a customer to define what adds value? from the opening quote, used by W.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. The book lays out a Theory of Jobs to be Done in a very compelling way. In the book, they explore the example mentioned in the article in more detail.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 1, 2015

Louis Altazan, President of AGCO Automotive Corporation discusses the success AGCO has had applying Deming’s management system to their service organization (car repair). This [Deming’s ideas] sort of went to the same exact type of philosophy. He mentions he was surprised when Dr. Deming answered his own phone.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The edition features my post “ Setting Expectations on Behaviors You Value: 5 Pointers ” along with other excellent thoughts on HR, OD and Leadership. Your reference to gaps in the lateral movement of work reminded be of Frank Voehl’s post on the Deming Learning Network - “Managing the White Space&#. Don’t Kill It!

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Deming Institute

APRIL 25, 2016

He starts the presentation with the Red Bead Game (see related posts on our blog: Lessons From the Red Bead Experiment with Dr. Deming , The Red Bead Experiment with Dr. W. Edwards Deming ). Deming’s proposal was this. And then I went to Deming’s Course and he began to lay out just what I am laying out to you.

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Deming Institute

JULY 12, 2017

By age 11, he learned Linux programming language from a library book and, as a pre-teen, he created and published animated videos on YouTube for fun. Ben did well in school in the early years-when the AIM was on the learning , something, I’ve learned from Dr. Deming, we are all conditioned to do well in our early years.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 26, 2017

A company with a Deming based management system actually will provide relevant education and experience to all employees that will benefit new managers (much more than most organizations do). Edwards Deming Institute, are trying to help people overcome. Reading several good books can help a great deal.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 14, 2012

As I fine tune next week’s Leadership and Culture Development for Higher Health and Safety webcast presentation, I’ve been reflecting on the lessons learned from the quality movement and the widespread failure to apply those to workplace safety. Deming considers slogans to be just another form of exhortation.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 30, 2010

I am very proud to be a part of a wonderful community of leadership bloggers and am grateful to Dan McCarthy (for his insights and for hosting Leadership Development Carnival), to Mary Jo Asmus , Becky Robinson (be sure to check out her new blog ) and Wally Bock. Don’t Kill It! Working and Walking – Where Are You Going?

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