Tag: Deming

W. Edwards Deming: Leadership, Quality, and Continuous Improvement

W. Edwards Deming’s ideas about leadership, systems, variation, and psychology continue to shape how organizations pursue quality and improvement. This archive brings together blog posts, podcasts, and reflections exploring Deming’s teachings—and how they apply to Lean, healthcare, management, and continuous improvement today. Many of these posts challenge common misinterpretations of Deming’s work, emphasizing that quality cannot be delegated and that improvement starts with leadership.

Japan’s CEO Aren’t Greedy Villains

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In Japan, more CEOs share the pain of tough times - USATODAY.comThe USA Today, whether they're trying or not, is doing a good job...

Standardized Work Should Not be Robotic – Especially in Healthcare

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Why 'Quality' Care Is Dangerous - WSJ.com Yesterday's WSJ opinion piece by Dr. Jerome Goopman (author of How Doctors Think) and Pamela Hartzband caught my...

A Parent Burned by Incentives, Microcosm of Finance and Society?

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Family Business - WSJ.comIn today's WSJ, there's a review of a new book called Parentonomics: An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting, in the mold...

Following up on the Peanut Corporation… Snap, Crackle, Salmonella?

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Following up on these two earlier posts (here and here)... I'll quit calling them the "Idiot Corporation of America" since the Peanut Corporation of...

Idiot Inspector for Idiot Corporation?

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TheDay.com - Food safety problems slip by auditorsYou might remember my rants about the Idiot Corp... I mean Peanut Corporation of America. Just saw...

Dr. Deming’s Role of a People Manager

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I stumbled across these notes I had taken about 8 or 9 years ago based on a video lecture from Dr. Deming:W. Edwards Deming...

LeanBlog Podcast #63 – David “Zuma Dogg” Saltsburg, Deming-Based Candidate for...

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I have a very special guest today... it's a very spur of the moment podcast with L.A. mayoral candidate, David "Zuma Dogg" Saltsburg. This...

A Deming Disciple as Candidate for L.A. Mayor?

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L.A. Voters For Change: Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate David Saltsburg (Zuma Dogg) Answers Questions For Daily News I won't pretend to understand Los Angeles politics...

Lean Thoughts: Feb 12

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Not Jack Handey's "Deep Thoughts" ... more like Larry King's old USA Today column... it's Lean Thoughts for Feb 12, 2009... the byproduct of...

WWII Propaganda Posters for Employee Ideas

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Browse Posters - George Marshall Foundation I love old WWII Posters, particularly the production posters aimed at helping the war effort. As much as Dr....

Great Piece on the Failings of Incentives

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Why Incentives Are Effective, Irresistible, and Almost Certain to Backfire | Fast CompanyJust about when I start thinking "Is Fast Company magazine relevant anymore,...

Yes, We Can… but by What Method?

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TRANSCRIPT: Obama's Inaugural Address:I guess this is a "mashup" of sorts... between Dr. W. Edwards Deming and President Obama...The President said yesterday, in his...
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