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Deming’s Seven Deadly Diseases

William Edwards Deming was sent to Japan in the early 1950’s and propagated his ideas about quality control and production process throughout Japanese industry. There’s a wealth of wisdom in Deming’s work, albeit much of it industrially focused, but I’m particularly fond of his “Seven Deadly Diseases” of management (with my comments): Lack of constancy… Read More Deming’s Seven Deadly Diseases

December 10, 2012 Brett W Green3 Comments

Top 5 logical fallacies used in technical debates

I’m an engineer, so I get in a lot of debates. I get in lots of debates on a wide variety of other topics as well. I can certainly come across as argumentative, but all I’m really seeking is a reasonable debate between valid arguments. What I often get, instead, are arguments that are really based… Read More Top 5 logical fallacies used in technical debates

November 23, 2012February 10, 2017 Brett W GreenLeave a comment

Innovation not Regurgitation

Given the rapid growth of the internet as an information resource… and our seemingly inherent human treatment of the written word as gospel… it is very easy for my fellow engineers to read a single blog entry and conclude that ‘we should be doing that!’ … and I think that’s a very serious problem. To… Read More Innovation not Regurgitation

November 16, 2012 Brett W Green1 Comment

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