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The best and the brightest

Deming Institute

But I wonder if that’s a great long-term strategy? Would that be a short term sacrifice that would benefit the bigger system and thus ultimately the business itself? Compare the loyalty of the BaB you just hired from another company versus someone who your company helped develop into a BaB. Is there something better?

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Edwards Deming : the former an industrialist who equated machines and human beings (both to be managed for maximum output), the latter a humanist who saw the individual as internally motivated to do good, meaningful work. The contrast was driven home by a full-blown reenactment of Deming’s famous red bead experiment.

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