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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. Berwick’s talk spanned a pantheon of management thinkers to show the audience just how far we have come from Taylor to Deming in the 20th century. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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The Importance of Working with Suppliers Over the Long Term

Deming Institute

Move toward a single supplier for any one item, on a long-term relationship of loyalty and trust. Edwards Deming’s 14 points for management. Dr. Deming explained that the organization was a system that included the suppliers and customers. You need to manage and continually improve that entire system.

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The best and the brightest

Deming Institute

It’s interesting that there’s a book designed to teach managers how to keep the BaBs that they hired. Compare the loyalty of the BaB you just hired from another company versus someone who your company helped develop into a BaB. That’s a fear isn’t it, with hiring a BaB – the fear of their mobility.