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A High-Quality Academic Book Review
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Continue reading →: A High-Quality Academic Book ReviewI’ve recently been assigned the role of Book Review Editor for ASQ’s Quality Management Journal starting with the second issue in 2013, under the guidance of new Editor, Larry Fredendall of Clemson University. As we are preparing our book reviews for this issue, Matthias Thurer (who will also be preparing…
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Continue reading →: Innovation, Lakota Style(Image Credit: Doug Buckley of http://hyperactive.to) Right now, I’m reading Archie Fire Lame Deer‘s personal history in Gift of Power. I lived in Rapid City for a short time in the late 1990’s, and I’m particularly attracted to the Lakota culture, and the Black Hills and Badlands that are so…
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Continue reading →: What I’m Doing for my December End-of-the-World Improvement Challenge
I’m going to update this every day or two with the excellent improvements I’m seizing the day and making — as part of The December 2012 End of the World IMPROVEMENT CHALLENGE! Monday 12/10: I helped students with their statistics projects. I had a difficult time thinking about any improvements that I’d…
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Continue reading →: The December 2012 End of the World IMPROVEMENT CHALLENGE
(Image Credit: Lucy Glover of Lucy Glover Photography, San Francisco CA. Used with permission.) Hey everybody, remember last month when everyone was posting things they were thankful for in the twenty-odd days leading up to Thanksgiving? (They might still be doing it… I don’t know.) I thought that was a…
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Continue reading →: Accelerating Quality
(Image Credit: Doug Buckley of http://hyperactive.to) As part of World Quality Month, ASQ CEO Paul Borawski asks what we can do to more actively promote the discipline of quality. There are two ways, in my opinion, to accelerate the adoption of quality philosophies and practices: 1. Return everyone’s focus to…
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Continue reading →: Are Deming’s 14 Points Still Valid?
(Image Credit: Doug Buckley of http://hyperactive.to) In 1986, W. Edwards Deming described the 14 Points that constitute his transformational theory of management in Out of the Crisis. These tenets were the basis for his success and fame as an agent of organizational and institutional change in post-war Japan. Researchers and practitioners…
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Continue reading →: Decidere: The Power of Decision
(Image Credit: Lucy Glover of Lucy Glover Photography, San Francisco, CA) I committed to a decision today. It was a big decision — one that’s been hanging over my head for many months. I am certain that this decision will impact the rest of my life, and it’s so personal,…
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