Deming Institute

APRIL 2, 2018

A previous post on our blog included an except from this talk: Attributing Fault to the Person Without Considering the System. I believe that a manager can also take action to reduce the systemic demotivation present in the workplace (and I believe David agrees). Dr. Deming said your sources of power come from primarily 3 sources.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 12, 2016

” – Douglas McGregor. A bad system will beat a good person every time. A system is more than the sum of its parts; it is an indivisible whole. The elements of a system may themselves be systems, and every system may be part of a larger system. ” is, “You don’t.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

A slower worker doesn’t just reduce a team’s productivity — he can also hurt his colleagues’ morale, says Lindsay McGregor, the coauthor of Primed to Perform and co-founder of Vega Factor. “Start with assuming positive intent,” says McGregor. What the Experts Say. ” Principles to Remember.

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McGregor How To Brainstorming Micromanagement 11

Deming Institute

JULY 1, 2019

Dr. Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge (SoPK) consists of 4 components: appreciation for a system, knowledge of variation, theory of knowledge and psychology. It is important to understand what that term means within Deming’s management system, it isn’t the same thing as what is covered in a psychology 101 course.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

FireEye’s sophisticated system worked: It triggered alerts that malware had entered Target’s computers. There may have been some skepticism about the system, because it was new to Target. In response, Target acknowledged that its computer system had been alerted to suspicious activity. Except no one did anything.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

It includes Mary Parker Follett (1920s), Elton Mayo and Chester Barnard (1930s), Abraham Maslow (1940s), Douglas McGregor (1960s), Peter Drucker (1970s), Peters and Waterman (1980s), Katzenbach and Smith (1990s), and Gary Hamel (2000s). Threats to privacy must be averted by appropriate regulation.

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Deming Institute

JULY 1, 2019

Dr. Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge (SoPK) consists of 4 components: appreciation for a system, knowledge of variation, theory of knowledge and psychology. It is important to understand what that term means within Deming’s management system, it isn’t the same thing as what is covered in a psychology 101 course.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

It is also worth noting that in this era, ownership of capital, which permitted acquisition and expansion of means of production (factories and other systems), was the basis for economic well-being. Douglas McGregor’s “Theory Y” is representative of the genre. Optimization therefore made a lot of sense.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Deming Institute

AUGUST 20, 2015

This is in line with many thinkers, teachers and writers on organisations and management including Douglas McGregor, Frederick Herzberg and William Ouchi. The people and parts of the system are all important and work together. It is management’s job to Optimise the System with everyone’s help.

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