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July 16, 2015
Pitfalls of Agile Transformations
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“We are a conservative company, so we are just starting our agile transformation,” the manager told me. “But we expect big things fro...
February 7, 2011
Before There Was Management
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Management is a rather recent invention in the history of human evolution – it’s been around for maybe 100 or 150 years, about two or three ...
January 15, 2011
A Tale of Two Terminals
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By any measure, Terminal 3 at Beijing Capital Airport is impressive. Built in less than four years and officially opened barely four months...
September 4, 2007
Train-Wreck Management
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“On October 5, 1841, two Western Railroad passenger trains collided somewhere between Worchester, Massachusetts and Albany, New York, killin...
February 4, 2002
Zero Defects Mentality
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A ‘zero defects mentality’ is a bad thing in the military. “Demanding such a rigid standard produces timid leaders afraid to make tough deci...
January 31, 2002
Lazy Workers
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Scientific Management The workers on the first Ford assembly line spoke more than 50 languages, and many of them could barely speak English...
May 1, 2001
Lean Programming
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About the time of the 1980 NBC documentary ‘If Japan Can, Why Can’t We?’, I was the System Manager in a video cassette manufacturing plant, ...
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