Peter Drucker, “The Effective Executive”. I mentioned that I had read this book over the weekend so I thought I’d make a blog post about it…a concise and less than 1 hour blog post. First of all Drucker wrote the book in 1965 when the knowledge workers were beginning to make their move on the [...]
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If You Stress Me Out, I’m More Likely to Fail
September 17th, 2009
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Summary Fear and stress, when not managed with minimization in mind, can lead to poor results from even the brightest, and most driven workers. This blog post examines how this happens, and suggests that driving out fear and stress from the workplace should be a priority. __________________________________________________________________________________ You’re sitting there at Thanksgiving dinner with your [...]
GenY’s Demands on Management
June 9th, 2009
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Its not new news, the effects of Generation Y on the workforce are often not as good as we’d like. GenY has tons of potential; the challenge now is discovering which ancillary benefits, corporate culture, and management style works best for them. As the baby boomer generation retires, GenY is being asked to backfill the [...]
PDCA Personal Application
June 4th, 2009
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As I reflected on the PDCA cycle, I noticed that I had been doing this in my personal life already. I had been acting out the PDCA cycle in my weight training for the past year. First I had set goals and devised a plan to meet those goals. Then I executed the plan. After [...]
PDCA – Deming reintroduces Shewhart’s Plan-Do-Check-Act
June 3rd, 2009
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PDCA stands for Plan-Do-Check-Act. It is a cycle originally created by Walter Shewhart in 1930′s, but it wasn’t popularized until Deming began using it to model continuous quality improvement processes in business. What does it mean? Plan – Based on data recieved from marketing and other efforts to understand a particular “thing”, decide what it [...]
