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		<title>The Toyota Way – Two Pillars</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hunter</dc:creator>
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Toyota is receiving plenty of criticism now, much of it for good reason.  There is also a large amount of psychology involved.  From what I have seen, the insurance companies still see better claims history (fewer and lower cost claims) against Toyota than other manufacturers.  And there is another strain that seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Net Neutrality, Policy, Economics and Intelligent Engineering</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hunter</dc:creator>
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I believe net neutrality should be championed to prevent decay of the usability of the internet.  It seems to me internet connectivity is a natural monopoly that economic theory says should be a regulated monopoly.  Smart countries have invested in providing much better internet connectivity that the USA has at much lower prices. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Management Improvement Carnival #94</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hunter</dc:creator>
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The Curious Cat Management blog carnival highlights management blog posts 3 times each month.  I have also collected hundreds of online management improvement articles in the Curious Cat Management Library.

Why You Should Never Listen to Your Customers by Mark Cuban &#8211; &#8220;Your customers can tell you the things that are broken and how they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxes per Person by Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hunter</dc:creator>
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I think that the idea that data lies is false, and that such a notion is commonly held a sign of lazy intellect.  You can present data in different ways to focus on different aspects of a system.  And you can make faulty assumptions based on data you look at.
It is true someone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Management Blog Posts From April 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hunter</dc:creator>
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Here are some of the blog posts from the Curious Cat Management Improvement made in April 2006:

PBS Documentary: Improving Hospitals &#8211; &#8220;Systems thinking allows leaders and staff to see the complex, modern workplace with &#8216;new eyes&#8217; and turn problems into improvements. It has saved up to 50 percent in costs, thousands of lives, and avoided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kiva – Giving Entrepreneurs an Opportunity to Succeed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hunter</dc:creator>
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I really like Kiva.  Kiva lets you lend small amounts of money to entrepreneurs around the world.  My latest loan is to a manufacturing entrepreneur in the USA.  
When Tony’s 6&#8242;0 6&#8243; body could not fit in the traditional supercars, he built his own in 1990. Tony says, &#8220;If one door closes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Management Improvement Carnival #93</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hunter</dc:creator>
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Kevin Meyer is hosting Management Improvement Carnival #93 on the Evolving Excellence blog, highlights include:

Seven Virtues of the 21st Century Organization (Weekly Leader): Purpose-driven organic adaptability, values that are operational.
Value in Lean (Thinking for a Change): How do you define &#8220;value&#8221; &#8211; there are many ways.
Listen to the Naysayers (Evolving Excellence): &#8220;Be careful not to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aligning Marketing Vision and Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hunter</dc:creator>
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Why do so many companies market one thing and provide something else?  I know it might be easier to sell something different than what you offer your customer today.  But if you decide to market one vision, why don&#8217;t you change your organization to actually offer that?
I suspect this is substantially due to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Management Improvement Carnival #92</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hunter</dc:creator>
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The Curious Cat Management blog carnival selects recent management blog posts 3 times each month. Also visit the Curious Cat Management Library for online management improvement articles.

The 7 Software Development Wastes by Jack Milunsky &#8211; &#8220;1) Keep your stories small, and unambiguous. 2) Ensure that each story has well defined acceptance test criteria (assisted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toyota’s Journey to Lean Software Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hunter</dc:creator>
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Toyota&#8217;s journey from Waterfall to Lean software development by Henrik Kniberg
Toyota builds cars (duh). In the past that didn&#8217;t involve much software, and the little software that was needed was mostly developed by suppliers and embedded in isolated components. Toyota assembled them and didn&#8217;t much care about the software inside. But &#8220;The importance of automatic [...]]]></description>
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