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Joel Barker Podcast

Joel Barker Podcast
Innovation with Joel Barker at the Cranky Middle Manager Show: Innovation isn’t necessarily all great. Unintended consequences are something to be considered- what Joel calls “Cascade Thinking”. What are the long-term consequences before you invest. “the answer to the problem is ... Read More
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Data Visualization Example

Data Visualization Example
In Myths About the Developing World, Hans Rosling shows some great graphics to display data on health care outcomes. This is one of the talks from the great TED conference that we have mentioned before. They really ... Read More
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A few interesting links for you!

A few interesting links for you!
From Businesspundit: Background Checks Change Racial Hiring Preferences From the Futurist.com: Electric and hybrid motorcycles - super cool. From Here We Are. Now What? Is OD Going Away? My 2 cents on this - not until we improve our management training, which ... Read More
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De-Hassle Today

De-Hassle Today
Check out this 7 minute podcast - I was Nick McCormick's guest for his management tip podcast series. My tip has to do with hassle - or getting rid of it. See all the tip and hear all the tipsters ... Read More
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Pass Your Knowledge and Experience Along: Get Interviewed About Your Experience with CRM, SPM or SFA Sales Technology

Pass Your Knowledge and Experience Along: Get Interviewed About Your Experience with CRM, SPM or SFA Sales Technology
I’m looking for a few salespeople, sales managers and corporate executives to interview to be featured on The Management Curve blog.  The Management Curve is a blog dedicated to examining and discussing how the new sales technologies of Client Relationship ... Read More
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Join Lisa in Alexandria to learn more about Informal Learning to Develop Managers

Join Lisa in Alexandria to learn more about Informal Learning to Develop Managers
I will be doing two workshops for ASTD in Alexandria, VA (American society for Training and Development). The workshop is called Developing Great Managers and it is a two-day exploration and hands-on class focused on how to add more and ... Read More
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Lean Manufacturing Dream

Lean Manufacturing Dream
This article is from 2001 and worth reading. It is important to keep up with what is currently happening but there is a great deal of useful information from 5, 10,20, 50… years ago. Achieving the lean dream by Nelson ... Read More
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Deming and Six Sigma

Deming and Six Sigma
The first Curious Cat Management Improvement blog post was on the Six Sigma and Deming Philosophies Recently the Deming Electronic Network has returned to this topic. The Quality Advisor web site has an article on this topic: Deming and Six Sigma (broken ... Read More
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Innovation Strategy

Innovation Strategy
Six Principles for Making New Things by Paul Graham The answer, I realized, is that my m.o. for all four has been the same. Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that ... Read More
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Toyota Powers to the Front

Toyota Powers to the Front
Toyota powers to the front (Toyota President, Katsuaki Watanabe) eschews the normal management mantra of shareholder value above all. A company’s purpose, Watanabe insists, is to be useful to society. W. Edwards Deming described the purpose of an organization in New Economics, ... Read More
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