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Top Leadership Blog Posts

Michael Lee Stallard

Bob Lieberman presents The Can-Do Attitude posted at Cultivating Creativity – Developing Leaders for the Creative Economy. It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering. Linda Fisher Thornton presents Leaders & Social Media: 5 Reasons to Engage posted at Leading in Context LLC.

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The November 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Bob Lieberman presents The Can-Do Attitude posted at Cultivating Creativity – Developing Leaders for the Creative Economy. It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering. Linda Fisher Thornton presents Leaders & Social Media: 5 Reasons to Engage posted at Leading in Context LLC.

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The Failure of “The Livonia Philosophy” at my GM Plant

Deming Institute

General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. If possible, I wanted to work in something closer to the Deming environment. I was told that Dr. Deming had taught some workshops within GM, particularly the Powertrain division in the 1980s.

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The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy Versus Process

QAspire

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&#. I am so glad the ideas in my post resonated well with you. Don’t Kill It! Working and Walking – Where Are You Going?

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A Story on Importance of Processes: From Subroto Bagchi

QAspire

Fuji Xerox won the legendary Deming Prize for Total Quality Management even before Xerox, the parent company, got the Malcolm Baldridge Award for quality in the US. Recently, someone argued with me stating that just because they are into a creative field, they don’t need process. Everybody else, he said, must follow process.

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The Value of Professional Conferences. Also Why Has There Been So Little Innovation?

Curious Cat

I took this photo after presenting a Deming 2 1/2 day seminar in Boston (at the Boston Fine Arts Museum – see more photos ). The benefits they bring are very hard to calculate. I can see why companies often are very tight with budgets for conferences. A stone sarcophagus from ancient Egypt.

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The 'Invisibles' in Business Performance

QAspire

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! Don’t Kill It!

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