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14 Points for Management as presented on the Deming Institute website:7 1. Create constancy of purpose toward improvement of product and service, with the aim to become competitive and to stay in business, and to provide jobs. 2. Adopt the new philosophy. We are in a new economic age. Western management must awaken to the challenge, must learn thei
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Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
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Lean and agile, with a common root in post–World War II Japan, have a lot in common, such as a focus on building quality in, value, flow, respect for people, a pull-based system of work, and a kaizen process of continuous improvement and visualizing work. However, a key area where they differ is the focus on “standardized work” in lean. Mass produc
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Daniel H. Pink • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
These principles are the hard-won product of decades of experience in software engineering. They are not the product of a single mind but represent the integration of the thoughts and writings of a large number of software developers and researchers.
Robert C. Martin • Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# (Robert C. Martin Series)
Profits are a product of doing the right thing—over and over again.
Joel Manby • Love Works: Seven Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders
Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
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A deeper look into Alcoa’s story reveals that not only was it a story of cooperation and transformation but also of exhibiting all four parts of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge: the theory of knowledge as opportunities were identified and converted into nuggets of knowledge, variation to measure what they were learning, human psychology to un
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