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How To Manage Poor Performance

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At some point in your career as a manager, you’re going to have to manage a poor performing employee. 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.”.

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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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Four Day Seminar with Dr. Deming Videos

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Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). 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. Edwards Deming presenting the Red Bead Experiment.

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The Most Viewed Videos on Our YouTube Channel

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Edwards Deming Institute You Tube channel has shared videos online for 10 years now. Edwards Deming: The 14 Points (171,000 total views all time – it has been online for 5 years). Dr. Deming – The 5 Deadly Diseases (1984) (152,000 – 10 years). Edwards Deming (108,000 – 5 years). Why Deming?

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Human Resources in the Post Deming Era

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There are many ways in which the management of our organizations needs to improve ( understanding how to use data effectively , systems thinking…) and one of those important areas is in managing people. Guest post by John Hunter , founder of curiouscat.com (in 1996). This is excellent advice.

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Fond Farewells: Remembering Bill Latzko, Tom Nolan, and Bill Ratcliff

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Dear Deming Community, Please join us in honoring the lives of these three men, who made countless contributions to the Deming community and society at large. A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Latzko spent most of his career in quality control as a manager, consultant, and educator. May they rest in peace.

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Dr. Bill Bellows, new Deputy Director of The Deming Institute

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Edwards Deming Institute — one which will open tremendous possibilities for our future. Dr. Bill Bellows to The Deming Institute staff as our new Deputy Director! Bill has been a long time member of The Deming Institute’s Board of Trustees; a valuable guiding influence for more than a decade. We welcome. Bill Bellows.

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