The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten by Joshua Macht

https://hbr.org/2016/06/the-management-thinker-we-should-never-have-forgotten

Author: Gipsie Ranney Title: Deming's Ideas in the Twenty-first Century - Parts 1 & 2

Author: Gipsie Ranney Title: Deming's Ideas in the Twenty-first Century - Parts 3 & 4

1. In his HBR article, Josh Macht finds parallels between Dr. Deming's views on people and the beliefs of...

Benjamin Franklin

Peter Senge

Thomas Hobbes

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

2. Gipsie Ranney offers the following example to explain a system...

if you divide a lemon in half, you don't get two smaller lemons

if you divide an airplane in half, you don't get two smaller airplanes

if you cut an elephant in half, you don't get two smaller elephants

if you divide a cow in half, you don't get two smaller cows

3. Gipsie Ranney used which word to describe what a system isn't:

a heap

a wall

a cell

a stone