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EBM: Deming & Quality

LDRLB

Encourage self-improvement and education for all. Additionally, his quality management systems influence other models such as Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Total Quality Management (TQM). Eliminate numerical targets. Management by objectives encourages low quality in order to meet quantity.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

Educational and incentive programs should be implemented. Total Quality Management (TQM) is recognized as a prerequisite for survival. TQM has increased profitability in some corporations up to six times. ’ These actions include: Education. During tough economic times, investment in a quality program is not costly.

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Transforming a Management System – A Case Study From the Madison Wisconsin Police Department

Curious Cat

Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. This post in an excerpt from The Quality Leadership Workbook for Police by Chief David Couper and Captain Sabine Lobitz ( buy via Amazon ). The New Quality Leadership Workbook for Police. Transformational Steps.

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Job hunting - the single most effective thing to do

Chartered Management Institute

There's one simple thing, that most senior executives (most people generally) don't do when they are looking for a job. They don't do it out of fear - and that fear is misguided - or, I suppose, out of shame. In today's job hunt we depend on our informal network of personal ambassadors to help unearth possibilities.

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What would I do? An exercise in Finding-Your-Passion

Chartered Management Institute

Most of us have fallen into our career. While the proportion of vocational to non- vocational degrees fluctuates, most people still end up in a career that just happened.

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Observing human behaviour - when we choose to intervene and when we don't

Chartered Management Institute

What are the fantasies and fears, projections, and stereotypes that influence our behaviour in situations like this? Which ones help us survive today and which are legacies from our cave-man ancestors? When does our sense of outrage provoke us to act? When does our sense of decorum prevent us?

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What's in a personal value and what are mine?

Chartered Management Institute

In his address to Stanford Graduates in 2005, Steve Jobs said; "And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition". When we have an intuitive response to something it is often our personal values that are being touched upon.

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