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Putting Deming Thinking into Practice

Deming Institute

Marty Laurent describes how he took Deming thinking into a GM plant. He adapted to meet the local conditions and, over nine years, his team achieved tremendous success. Part 2 in a 4-part series.)

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Out Of The Crisis: The Deming Institute’s Response to COVID-19

Deming Institute

Why Deming, Why Now. As events unfold, I (like many of you, I am sure) am thinking a lot about Deming. It’s far too easy to focus on the systemic failures happening all around us, shake our heads and say, “If only people had listened to Deming.” Across the globe, people are coming together.

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Experiential Learning, Deming and Neuroscience! I Just had a Geekgasm

Mike Cardus

I came across this great video clip from the W Edwards Deming Institute. JW Wilson presented ‘The Neuroscience of Deming’. It shows how experiential learning, and in my interpretation, team building activities can change you as a person, therefore changing your thinking…. Watch the video above. michael cardus is create-learning.

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Great Quote: On System of Management by Deming

QAspire

Edwards Deming , the pioneer and guru in quality revolution wrote the following paragraph when commenting on Peter Senge’s book “ The Fifth Discipline ” and it instantly struck the chord. On the job people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. are pushed into the margins.

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Why Deming / Why Now / Working to transform “our” system

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming was the NBC Special (termed a “Whitepaper”), “If Japan Can, Why Can’t We?” His questions within resonated with me immediately, as I was a new supervisor for Bell Telephone. Why Deming? Edwards Deming. Guest blog by Dennis Sergent, Principal Consultant, Sergent Results Group. I had to learn more.

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Extraordinary Results

Deming Institute

This is the final installation of Martin Laurent's story of transforming a GM plant using the Deming philosophy. He shares the extraordinary results of his team's efforts.

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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).