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Deming Company was Ahead of COVID-19

Deming Institute

We recently sat down with Dick Steele, Chairman of Peaker Services and Deming Institute Trustee, to talk about how his company is adapting to the new reality of how to keep an industry functioning – and employees safe – during a pandemic. They began the transformation to a Deming organization over 30 years ago. We get audited.

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Hope Proved to Be a Bad Strategy for LUV—Lessons from the Southwest Airlines Debacle

Art Petty

Deming is spinning in his grave over this one. The post Hope Proved to Be a Bad Strategy for LUV—Lessons from the Southwest Airlines Debacle appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty. There are some painful and painfully obvious leadership and management lessons from the recent Southwest Airlines debacle.

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Increase Your Awareness by Predicting Results in the Planning Stage

Lead Change Blog

Frustrated with the way most organizations attempt to improve their operations, Bill created the 5 Minutes to Process Improvement Success interview series , a work designed to uncover and leverage the best performance improvement strategies and tactics of top consultants from around the world. Edwards Deming'

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Human Resources in the Post Deming Era

Deming Institute

When I had a leadership position with a team I had us have the whole team sit in the interviews with potential candidates (the team members were all early in their careers and in this and other ways I tried to help them learn and develop their skills). 25 years after this presentation, this is still true in my opinion.

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Software Code Reviews from a Deming Perspective

Deming Institute

Software code review is the practice of reviewing the software code written by colleagues on your software development team. Edwards Deming stated in Out of the Crisis: Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Do we need to update a software development checklist?

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Deming Podcast with Scott Dalgleish, CEO at Phase IV Engineering

Deming Institute

Scott first encountered Deming’s ideas while an engineer at Proctor & Gamble in 1986. Deming training was rolled out to us. He taught the Deming principles to his new company and they were readily embraced. Scott Dalgleish. Scott Dalgleish is the CEO at Phase IV Engineering. I thought it was a really wonderful thing.

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Human Resources in the Post Deming Era

Deming Institute

When I had a leadership position with a team I had us have the whole team sit in the interviews with potential candidates (the team members were all early in their careers and in this and other ways I tried to help them learn and develop their skills). 25 years after this presentation, this is still true in my opinion.