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April 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the April 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival. He reminds readers, “Feedback can be one of the most powerful ways to develop employees and improve performance,” then asks, “so why are many managers so hesitant to give it?” Follow The Deming Institute on Twitter at @DemingInstitute.

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The Influence of C. I. Lewis on Walter Shewhart and W. Edwards Deming

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming had a large and varied collection of influences. The ideas Dr. Deming drew from the work of C.I. The article I quote from below provides a path to appreciating the ideas Dr. Deming and Dr. Shewhart were able to apply in their thinking from C.I. Lewis: Influence of C.I.

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Healthcare, Paradigm Shifts and the Influence of W.E. Deming

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In 2014 I presented a paper at the 20th Annual International Deming Research Seminar on the topic of “ Understanding and Application of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge in Healthcare.” Dr. Deming is cited several times in the book, and the reader will find evidence of Dr. Deming’s thinking throughout the 180 pages of the book.

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What we see…

Deming Institute

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. While “Standards are everything at Airbus: from cleaning up the table in the canteen after eating to operating a machine, they influence every part of the employees’ working day.” Deming is the core of our management.” . per million opportunities.

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Software Testing and the Impact on Quality

Curious Cat

Edwards Deming. You are testing while the product is being developed and adjustments are being made before the product is released to customers. Basically “ Inspection is too late. The quality, good or bad, is already in the product. I agree with those ideas.

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Gipsie Ranney

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming. She spent decades advocating Deming’s philosophy and helping people across the world with its application. Edwards Deming Institute. Gipsie was someone I very much enjoyed talking to at the early Deming Institute conferences. In Statistics from North Carolina State University. Gipsie Ranney.

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Deming’s Principles of Professional Practice

Deming Institute

We call this approach Professional Management, and have developed a system to implement it influenced by Dr. W. Edwards Deming and other great thought leaders. Dr. Deming’s timeless teachings have been, and will continue to be, a driving influence because we see his philosophies work.

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