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- Learn Lean by Doing Lean - If you actually let the lean leaders practice lean management you are probably doing more to help them learn than anything else. Reading is great, but 10 times better when reading to find solutions you need to deal with issues you have in place
- Highlights from Recent George Box Speech - Statistics for Experimenters: Design, Innovation, and Discovery shows that the goal of design of experiments is to learn and refine your experiment based on the knowledge you gain and experiment again. It is a process of discovery.
- A financial transactions tax would be a good way to pay off wall street welfare debt
- There is no true value of anything: data has meaning based on the operational definition used to calculate the data.
- Russell L. Ackoff: 1919-2009 - He understood to create effective management structures the human element must be at the heart of the system. He firmly believed in respect for people and his management ideas built on providing the opportunity for people to flourish...
- Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard Using Wii Remote - Using infrared (IR) light pens and the Wii Remote, it is possible to create very low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboards and multi-point tablet displays...
- USA Heath Care System Needs Reform - 1) It is bankrupting the government
2) It is severely handicapping business 3) It is bankrupting individuals 4) It is hampering economic freedom due to the model that ties health care to employment...
- Why the Dollar is Falling - The government can runs deficits if the citizen's finance that debt with savings: and still maintain a sound currency. But the recent period, given the macro-economic conditions, don't justify the value of the dollar. It should have fallen much further a long time ago...
- Managing to Test Result Instead of Customer Value - if people have incentives to improve the measured number they often will do just that (improving the measure) rather than improving the system...
- Data on the Largest Manufacturing Countries in 2008 - The USA's share of the manufacturing output from the largest manufacturing countries: 28% in 1990, 32% in 2000, 28% in 2005, 28% in 2006, 26% in 2007 and 24% in 2008. China's share has grown from 4% in 1990, 6% in 1995, 10% in 2000, 13% in 2005 to 18% in 2008.
- Learning Design of Experiments with Paper Helicopters - George Box wrote a great paper on teaching engineers experimental design that can be used to learn principles of experimental design, including - conditions for validity of experimentation, randomization, blocking, the use of factorial and fractional factorial designs and the management of experimentation...
- Test it Out, Experiment by They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants have issued a great new CD/DVD Here Comes Science, here is a webcast of one song on experimenting.
- Extrinsic Incentives Kill Creativity - Management should focus on providing workplaces where people have autonomy, mastery and purpose to build on intrinsic motivation.
- It is Never to Late to Invest - Instead of just missing out because I made a mistake and didn't buy a stock at a lower price earlier, I have learned to accept that buying at the higher price available today was the best option...
- Scientific Illiteracy Leaves Many at Risk in Making Health Care Judgements - Without a scientifically literate society even completely obvious measures like not using antibiotics on viral infections are ignored.
- The Best Leadership Is Good Management - Leadership is not separate from execution. But the idea of leadership as "doing the right things" while management is "doing things right" concepts serve to separate leadership from execution.
- Government Debt Around the World as Percentage of GDP 1990-2007 - The overall OECD debt to GDP ratio decreased from 77% in 2005 to 75% in 2007. The USA moved in the opposite direction increasing from 62% to 63%
- The Value of Displaying Data Well - Anscombe's quartet comprises four datasets that have identical simple statistical properties, yet are revealed to be very different when inspected graphically.
- Dr. Deming Webcast on the 5 Deadly Diseases - Dr. Deming's 1984 video on the 5 deadly diseases of western management: Emphasis on short term profits... Annual Performance Appraisals... Running a company on visible figures alone...
- Oil Consumption by Country in 2007 - USA consumed 24% of the oil (with 4.5% of the world population and 21% of world GDP), European Union 17% (7.4% population, 22% GDP), China 9% (20% population, 11% GDP).
- Blame the Road, Not the Person - Is a situation killing 40,000 people in the USA a year a health care issue? It sure seems to me it would be. It probably isn’t a disease management issue though... I think this is one, of many examples, that shows that we have a disease and injury management system not a health care system.
- Baking in Quality to Software Development - The switch to using Ruby coincided with the beginning of many improvements to our software development practices that have continually improved over the last several years.
- Bond Yields Show Dramatic Increase in Investor Confidence - From April 2009 to July 2009 the yield spread decreased by 213 basis points, showing investors have moved away from government bonds and into Baa corporate bonds.
- When Performance-related Pay Backfires - Managers need to eliminate de-motivation in the work systems not try and find bonus schemes to motivate behavior. Eliminating de-motivation and improving the system is often much more work... You have to manage. But if you are a manager you shouldn't be afraid to actually manage the system and make it better.
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John Hunter has experience in management improvement (customer focused continuous improvement, process improvement, systems thinking) and related areas. Since 1995, I have used the internet and internet technology to improve the results of management improvement efforts.
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