Why Dr. Deming’s Work is So Important to Me
Guest post by Mark Graban, founder and lead blogger and podcaster at LeanBlog.org, While my work is usually associated with the term “Lean” and the lessons from the Toyota Production System, some of my...
Category: psychology
Curiosity, Learning, Knowledge, and Improvement with Tim Higgins
Tim Higgins provided the Deming 101 presentation at our 2016 annual conference – Curiosity, Learning, Knowledge, and Improvement: Tim starts off by saying that some people think Deming’s life was about variation but Deming’s...
Change the Situation – Get a Different Result
David Langford’s presentation at the 2015 Deming in Education conference starts with a clip from Clare Crawford Mason’s PBS presentation on Mt. Edgecumbe High School, in Sitka, Alaska. Deming was a champion of the...
Why Some Things in Education Work….and Others Don’t
Presentation by JW Wilson at our 2015 Deming in Education conference: Why Some Things in Education Work….and Others Don’t: There is a mismatch between what science knows and what education does. This is true...
Building a Sustainable Organization Using Deming’s Ideas on Management
The linked to article that aims to provides an overview of the essence of Deming’s approach to management and its continuing relevance to managers: The Model of Sustainable Organisation by Alan Clark. A manager,...
Cash Incentives Won’t Make Us Healthier by Alfie Kohn
Dr. Deming referred to Alfie Kohn’s work and ideas when he was consulting, giving seminars and in The New Economics. Alfie Kohn will be a keynote speaker at our 1st annual Deming in Education...
Jim Benson on Applying Deming’s Ideas to Knowledge Work
Jim Benson, founding partner of the Modus Cooperendi and co-author of Personal Kanban is the guest on this Deming Podcast. In the podcast Jim discusses how to apply Deming ideas to knowledge work. I...
Deming 101: Discover How Amazing Things Happen, by Kelly Allan
“Get out of the motivation business. Create a work environment where people love to come to work and do their work.” – Kelly Allan
All That People Need to Know is Why Their Work is Important
Motivation – nonsense. All that people need to know is why their work is important. W. Edwards Deming, From a speech at General Motors in 1992: Introduction to a System. The Essential Deming We...
Deming Conference Webcast: Paula Marshall, CEO, The Bama Companies
Paula Marshall, CEO, The Bama Companies presentation at The W. Edwards Deming Institute 2014 annual conference. Her company bakes all the apple pies for McDonalds. When the quality issues were failing to meet McDonalds...
