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Two Tweets & A Blog

Deming Institute

conjures up the works of W. What follows is taken from a couple pages of my book, Sys-Tao – Western Logic and Eastern Flow. Deming’s tenet of understanding psychology (or, in my words, understanding relationships) is a prerequisite to transforming traditional (western) leadership philosophies. Edwards Deming.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business Review

This phase was loosely called leverage buy out (LBO) from about 1979 to 1990 and included over 2,000 LBOs. In phase two (buy and hold), PE equity investors bought the fixer upper and repaired it, but then rented it and ended up loosely managing the house before selling it.

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