Deming’s Ideas in Action: Trader Joe’s Culture
Is Trader Joe’s “doing Deming”? Explore what this iconic company says about its values – and how they put those words into practice.
Category: psychology
Peter Senge on the Creation of a Post-Industrial Theory and Practice of Education
Peter Senge reflects on efforts to transform education systems across the United States.
Dr. Deming’s work lauded by world famous philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre
One of the most pre-eminent philosophers in the world, Alasdair MacIntyre cites Deming at length in his 2016 book, Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity.
Restaurant Week (An elementary look at quality culture fundamentals)
Guest post by David Kachoui (previously published in Quality Progress, August 2014): Director of Business Development at Natech Plastics To celebrate “Restaurant Week,” my daughter’s first-grade class recently turned its classroom into a restaurant...
Book Review – The Mind at Work: Valuing the intelligence of the American Worker
Guest post by Michael Godfried: planner and policy analyst in Washington State and Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute Mike Rose is a wonderful writer with a host of books to his name. The Mind...
Comparing Lean Thinking and Dr. Deming’s Management Ideas
Guest post by John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. This webcast shows Sarah Pavelka’s presentation, Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Sarah co-authored Tool...
When Deming Goes to School
Guest post by John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. The video shows the presentation at our 2012 annual conference by David Langford – When Deming Goes to School, Learning Takes...
Empowering Students to Lead Change by Christine Simpson and Sarah Ambrus
Guest post by John Hunter, who founded curiouscat.com in 1996. The video shows the presentation by Christine Simpson and Sarah Ambrus at the 2015 Deming research seminar: Empowering Students to Lead Change. They gave...
Applying Deming’s Management Ideas at the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company
Guest post by John Hunter. This webcast shows Bob Browne’s presentation, Profound Knowledge of the Real Thing, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Bob is the former CEO of the Great Plains Coca Cola...
Command-and-Control Management Style delivers the wrong message
Guest post by Lori Fry, Principal with Navigator Management Partners, originally featured as a post at https://dignityatworkproject.com/ Follow this link to listen to our first podcast with Lori. My son, Ben, was written up at work...
