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. The new science aspect provides the frame of reference of quantum physics and chaos theory. instead results emerge from a system.

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Chaos Theory Deming Leadership Open-book 28

Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Rather than seizing this as an opportunity to develop a new theory on which I might improve student engagement and learning, I focused not on what was on the minds of my students but on improving my pedagogy; reinforcing, perhaps, how to continue to do the wrong things – things that had no relevance for my students – better.

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Covey Deming Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing 69

Deming Institute

MAY 9, 2016

Here is a long document looking at Deming’s ideas, written by Raphael Vitalo – Deming Revisited: The Real Quality Model for Commerce. The document explores Dr. Deming’s ideas in depth and provides the authors viewpoint. Deming’s definition of leadership—i.e.,

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Deming Document System Quality 28

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Might this proverb apply to systems leadership in schools, as well? Edwards Deming once wrote that a system needed to be managed, for without management the “parts” tend to act in their own interests and “sub-optimize” the system. Deming’s words are only the beginning of the journey to effective systems leadership/management.

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System Senge Management Deming 66

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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Process Deming Restructuring Efficiency 128

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 19, 2017

On a recent walk, I unexpectedly gained an insight from Landry about myself connected to the principles and practices of leadership. Edwards Deming, “begins in the boardroom.” I do not believe I am the only leader who suffered or suffers from the “Landry Principle,” as I now refer to it.

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Deming Education System Budgeting 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Some of the things that management identified as having been deficient in prior initiatives included that leadership changes had prevented consistency and carry-over, programs didn't attempt to change employee behavior, and middle managers didn't embrace the initiatives. For example, you could use "continuous improvement" instead of "kaizen."

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14