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Last Week’s Top Tweets

February 20, 2012
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Last Week’s Top Tweets

In case you missed it, here are some tweet & re-tweets of articles & other things that caught my eye last week: MUST READ: From Dan Markovitz (@timeback): Respect for people — treating them more like machines. bit.ly/zVyKew   From Others: From Boston College Center for Work & Family (@BCCWF): Need more leadership support + manager training: Flexible Hours Aren’t Working As Well As Companies Say businessinsider.com/flexible-hours…#workflex From Joe Dager (@business9o1)RT @jchyip: w/out a clear overall shared vision, “improve” tends 2 B a lot of random ideas until everyone eventually gets bored & gives up From Dan Feliciano (@DanFeliciano): IndustryWeek : Demand Surges for Lean...

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Last week’s tweets

February 6, 2012
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Last week’s tweets

In case you missed it, here are some tweet & re-tweets of articles & other things that caught my eye last week: From Others: From @tedcoine: YES!! RT @shawmu: Actually give a S### about the development of individuals.ow.ly/8SkuB via @kris_dunn From @ShingoPrize: Robert Miller said Shingo Prize focuses on more than just culture, it focuses on how to change culture #lean#ShingoPrize From @DemingSos: “Stamping out fires is lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.” “Manage cause, not result. #Deming#quick-fix From @TheOnion - Area Man Uninterested In Creating A Better Community Even Though This May Benefit Him In...

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Understanding why: Developing Critical Thinking in kids

December 5, 2011
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Understanding why: Developing Critical Thinking in kids

When faced with information that contradicts our understanding of the way things are supposed to be, we revert back to what we already know, claiming disbelief in the rightness of what we're seeing and failing to examine the situation in order to develop a new understanding. We are told to follow the rules, even if we don't understand them, and we insist on following the rules even when it is pointed out that those rules were based on false assumptions.

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The management lessons of angry birds

October 11, 2011
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The management lessons of angry birds

Angry Birds, that time-draining app that has spawned a cult phenomenon and a slew of stuffed toys at Walmart, might seem like an odd place to look for wisdom on accomplishing tasks. Nonetheless, the game offers several highly useful examples of how to manage yourself and others in order to get things accomplished:

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Process Improvement and the free flow of laundry

September 12, 2011
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Process Improvement and the free flow of laundry

Around the house, we've always had a problem with laundry. There's always a heap waiting to be ironed, hampers are overflowing, and many morning a search for clean socks would necessitate a trip to the basement to dig out a fresh pair from a laundry basket that was washed a week ago but still waiting to be folded. While a lot of folks might point to large-scale factory-wide process improvement efforts that take months to design and implement, I'm pretty content knowing that I was able to take all those concepts and apply them right here.......at home.....where it counts.

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Practice talking to yourself

August 15, 2011
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I’m spending a lot of time talking to myself these days.  And no, while the ins and outs of daily life sometimes make me crazy, I’m not quite losing it just yet. Thanks to the recent purchase of a smart phone, I found a pre-installed voice recorder app.  So, while I am driving to and fro, I find myself firing up the voice recorder and emptying out my thoughts on a variety of topics.  Most of them lead to blog posts or are sewing the seeds for other writings.  The practice has 2 benefits – I don’t have to...

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Matt Damon, master of intrinsic motivation

August 5, 2011
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Thanks to Time Magazine’s Megan Gibson (@MeganGibson) I stumbled across this video of Matt Damon explaining to a reporter just how intrinsic motivation works:   Atta boy, Matt.  I will now watch the Bourne and Ocean’s 11 reruns on TNT without feeling guilty.  I’m going to sidestep the education debate on this one, partly because I’m biased (regualr readers already know that my wife is a teacher) and partly because it’s not the point I want to make. The point is that passionate people, in any profession, do what they do because the want to.  Even people who fell into...

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NFL’s return to work spells disaster for improvement initiatives

July 26, 2011
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Thanks to a new Collective Bargaining Agreement between the NFL and its Players Union, we can all rest comfortably knowing that American-style football will return to the gridiron this Autumn.  That spells disaster for managers in any workplace looking to take advantage of the lockout and push through some difficult initiatives. Clearly, all those out-of-work athletes could have been put to much better use this Fall.  Most are college-educated individuals, with passion and commitment, and a demonstrated ability to function as part of a team while driving others to do the same. See this video, for a demonstration of...

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Demotivation: A to Z

March 23, 2011
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Demotivation: A to Z

Time to laugh a little bit.  I found these over at despair.com and motifake.com.  Enjoy your laugh, and be sure to visit their sites. etc. etc. etc…..    

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A Problem Solving joke: The number puzzle

March 4, 2011
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A Problem Solving joke: The number puzzle

A friend sent me a joke this week.  It was clever, but it also contained a couple of good messages about not letting a problem get in your way,  thinking sideways and not letting a someone who's lost in linear thought get the best of you.

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