Dr.Deming Archives - Page 12 of 38

Eliminate Management by Extremes: Awaken Your Inner Deming (Part 14)

By Andrew Stotz | 01/17/2024 |

Many businesses equate “manager” with “leader,” excluding potential leaders from across the organization. In this episode, Bill Bellows and host Andrew Stotz talk about leadership in Deming organizations – with a great story about senior “leaders” making a huge error in judgment at a conference of auditors.

Does Competition Create Wins? Role of a Manager in Education (Part 14)

By Andrew Stotz | 01/10/2024 |

Who wins when teams and team members compete with each other? In this final episode in the Role of a Manager in Education series, David Langford and Andrew Stotz discuss why cooperation beats competition, particularly in schools.

The Unhurried Conversation: Role of a Manager in Education (Part 13)

By Andrew Stotz | 12/28/2023 |

What are unhurried conversations, and why should managers prioritize them? In this episode, David Langford and host Andrew Stotz talk about the kinds of conversations managers should be having with their team members.

Eliminate Arbitrary Numerical Targets: Deming in Schools Case Study (Part 17)

By Andrew Stotz | 12/21/2023 |

Quotas, arbitrary targets, work standards with numerical goals – these don’t seem to apply to schools. But, as John Dues and host Andrew Stotz discuss, quotas show up a lot in classrooms, causing harm and preventing improvement.

Integration and the Taguchi Loss Function: Awaken Your Inner Deming (Part 13)

By Andrew Stotz | 12/06/2023 |

Should we strive to better understand what happens “downstream” to our defect-free work? No matter the setting, if our work meets requirements and we pass it on, are we responsible for how well it integrates into a bigger system? In this episode, Bill Bellows and Andrew Stotz expand on the interaction between variation and systems and why Dr. Deming regarded Genichi Taguchi’s Quality Loss Function as “a better description of the world.”