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4 Skills Great Innovators Share by Greg Satell

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In this context, I read a brilliant post (with some great examples) from Greg Satell about 4 skills that all great innovators share. I highly recommend you read the full post and here is a quick sketch note summary of key skills. Greg supports these skills in his post with excellent examples to make sense of it all.

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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). Guest post by John Hunter , founder of curiouscat.com (in 1996).

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How To Manage Poor Performance

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Edwards Deming, the legendary organizational psychologist. Deming had a principle he called the 85/15 rule. As Deming liked to say “A bad system will beat a good person every time.”. Poor performance could be a capability issue, meaning your people lack the knowledge, skills, or abilities to do the job.

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Software Code Reviews from a Deming Perspective

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming stated in Out of the Crisis: Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. people can learn from seeing what others do (those more skilled or even just with different ideas on how to attack something). Like many practices the form it takes can vary quite a bit. Please add your comments below.

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“We Thinking” in India, Mexico, UK, and US

Deming Institute

Shankar Panjwani (top left) studied the Deming Philosophy with Balaji Reddie , founder of The Deming Forum India and member of The Deming Institute’s Advisory Council. Tabasco: Healthcare Workers Use Deming on Frontlines. Raipur: Apex Pharma Gets PPE to Community, Government. Eunice del R. Lloyd, Ph.D.,

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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). Guest post by John Hunter , founder of curiouscat.com (in 1996).

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Some Statistical Logic in the Management of Quality by W. Edward Deming

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming wrote Some Statistical Logic in the Management of Quality to fill in some of the missing links in the use of statistical methods, with special reference to responsibilities at the management level for effective mobilization of statistical knowledge and skills. Edward Deming was included in the paper.

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