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March 28, 2024March 25, 2024 andreweverett360

Management Debt

Parv Sondhi tweeted “We’ve all heard of technical debt, but I love this concept of management debt.”

He refers this a passage from the book The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (2014) by Ben Horowitz:

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April 17, 2023 andreweverett360

Precision Scheduled Railroading from a carman’s perspective

Mike L wrote an article for The Real News Network titled A carman’s perspective on the East Palestine derailment and the railroad industry as a whole (March 31, 2023).

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February 19, 2023 andreweverett360

Slow down

Sue Heatherington wrote a blog post titled Intentionally slowing down the conversation (21 May 2022).

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October 22, 2021 andreweverett360

the often-misquoted W. Edwards Deming

Doug Garnett wrote a blog post titled W. Edwards Deming: The Legacy He Deserves Is Not The One He’s Usually Given  (October 23, 2021).

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February 20, 2021April 13, 2024 andreweverett360

Russell Ackoff Beyond Continual Improvement

If Russ Ackoff had given a TED Talk… 12-minute video from 1994. Rough transcript follows.

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September 29, 2020September 28, 2020 andreweverett360

Tom Peters: Culture vs Systems

Tom Peters wrote a 15-page paper titled Systems Have Their Place: SECOND Place. Continue reading “Tom Peters: Culture vs Systems” →

March 30, 2020 andreweverett360

Marketing in a supply constrained situation

Cheryl Calverley from an article for MarketingWeek titled In these times of crisis, marketers must bow down to the COO (27 March 2020).  Continue reading “Marketing in a supply constrained situation” →

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