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"Effective use of data is an important part of management improvement. Emphasis is needed on “effective”; data misuse is rampant and creates problems. Use of data by itself is not sufficient." management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/05/09/u... #data #management #leadership #critical_thinking

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And many people will die "Air pollution accounted for 8.1 million deaths globally in 2021, becoming the second leading risk factor for death, including for children under 5 years" www.unicef.org/press-releas... If you only care about USA annual deaths the total is 200,000 lae.mit.edu/2024/06/28/a...

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John Green explains how $20/year (from you and every other USA citizen) has helped save 91 million lives since 2000 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJW2... Calling your representatives to let them know you care about saving over 3 million lives a year can make a difference. Please watch the video + call

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"When encountering a problem or defect the inclination of many is to find a person to blame. W. Edwards Deming believed that the system was responsible for 93% of the problems and over time he increased that number to at least 97%..." #management management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/05/03/f...

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"having processes that create defects and then use inspection to catch them is certainly something to avoid… code reviews should be geared toward capturing learning that can be applied to current processes to improve them so fewer bugs are created in the future…" deming.org/software-cod...

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its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

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Everyone involved in trying to pass off that ChatGPT-extruded disinformation manifesto as a scientific report should be, at the very least, barred from public office for life. The MAHA report is dangerous criminal misconduct and an offence to the process of science.

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Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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SPACENEWS: NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands (But sets aside nearly $2 billion effectively earmarked for SpaceX) spacenews.com/nasa-budget-...

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"The difference between respect and disrespect is not avoiding avoiding criticism. In fact often if you respect someone you can be much more direct and critical than you can with someone you treat as though they don’t have the ability to listen…" management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/05/08/r...

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An important reminder that measles vaccines save millions of lives every year across the world. The measles vaccine is arguably the most life-saving vaccine in use. Our latest article from @scientificdiscovery.dev and @spoonerf.bsky.social: ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

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I have enjoyed these “day in the life” videos for several years. This one looks at a truck #manufacturing line with quite a few noticeable #lean_manufacturing influences. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeeL... #respect_for_people

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As long as the pay packages were merely large, and didn’t effect the ability of a company to prosper that could continue (slicing up the benefits between the stakeholders is not an exact science). The excesses recently have become so obscene... management.curiouscatblog.net/2005/12/04/e...

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@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social shares some extremely good news six years into our community's effort to improve maternal and child health in Sierra Leone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCZj... We can make a difference when we care about human beings. Sadly, this care is often missing in our society.

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"It seems obvious the process was not well designed if they believe a mistake was made that led to the tens of millions of people being without power. Failing to admit that the process was designed poorly and needs to be improved is troubling..." management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/11/18/e...

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Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.

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" I have had the exact experience Dilbert does of tech support refusing to think about the actual symptoms of the problem and insisting on following some script and wasting my time – repeatedly…" management.curiouscatblog.net/2010/08/12/t... #management #customer_focus

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"50 years after Douglas McGregor’s classic, The Human Side of Enterprise, too many #managers still have not learned that using #extrinsic #motivation is not an effective way to #manage complex human systems (organizations)…" management.curiouscatblog.net/2010/08/08/b... #management

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The Trump Administration Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat. apnews.com/article/poul...

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#photo of Bee and Yellow Flowers On the Chomphet hike in Luang Prabang, #Laos. More photos from that Laos curiouscat.com/travel/photo...

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Killing your greatest export is an unusual tactic in the midst of a trade war. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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"To be effective you need to learn to think about not what is printed on the page but what lies behind the numbers you see. The numbers are just proxies for the real situation. Look beyond the numbers you see to what they mean..." management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/05/09/u... #management #data

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NEW: No fewer than 10 principle scientists at NIH investigating emerging infectious diseases and neural disorders were among those fired by RFK Jr. today. One is an esteemed scientist awarded for breakthrough research into the causes of Parkinson's disease. By me and @emilymullin.bsky.social:

submitted 79 days ago • 115 comments

More than 1300 people working towards a healthier world, their jobs and their work terminated. Can we think of a bigger own goal for a country and a society?

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We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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'Simply put, customers want the ability to create a 1/4″ hole in wood, they don’t want a drill. A drill is a means of getting a 1/4″ hole. If you focus on making a better drill, you may miss other solutions.' deming.org/jobs-to-be-d... #management

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I interviewed leaders like Peter Senge, Don Berwick, Blan Godfrey, John Seddon, Paul Batalden, and Michael Maccoby and asked: What drives them to move beyond the status quo and adopt a strategy grounded in the Science of Improvement? Here's what I learned davidmwilliamsphd.com/2025/03/18/w...

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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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The destruction being done to the USA by the current administration and the Republican party is without precedent. It is alarming that impeachment hasn’t already removed Trump from office. The USA is at great risk from those we elected. We have to stop electing people so unsuited for office.

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“...when we fail to value the best ideas, instead valuing the new ideas, we are not as effective as we could be. We accept pale copies of good old ideas instead of...the good old ideas... from people like Ackoff, Deming, Ohno, Scholtes, McGreggor…" management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/06/10/m...

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"The difference between respect and disrespect is not avoiding avoiding criticism. In fact often if you respect someone you can be much more direct + critical than you can with someone you treat as though they don’t..." management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/05/08/r... #management #respect_for_people

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"The reason the blaming a person is a bad idea is that your organization will improve much more effectively if you keep asking why. Why did they make that error? Why did the process let them make that error? When you follow the why chain…" management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/05/03/f... #management

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"We’re a B Corporation and a benefit corporation, so we put our mission above financial gain. ... We give over 80 percent of our profit to independent bookstores." www.theverge.com/decoder-podc... #management #leadership #innovation

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As usual Mary Poppendieck does a very nice job of providing some good historical background while exploring wise #management practices (tied to #software_development but plenty useful for any #manager)... management.curiouscatblog.net/2010/08/30/t...

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As a global society we have made great progress with public health measures to save lives (infant+child mortality decreases...) over the last 70 years. Sadly the USA just blocked all funding for saving lives + other funding in an extremely anti-humanity policy change www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfBk...

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Withholding foreign aid was what Trump was impeached for! The laws have not changed. But he wasn’t convicted so now he is doing it on a much greater scale!

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So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.

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What's really astounding is Trump tried tariffs as a money raising scam last time, and it didn't work. Yet here we are again. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/01/donald-trump-tariffs-what-are-they-global-trade-war-canada-china-mexico

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The biggest difference I see in the #management improvement flavors is the overall aim... Most of these programs take a great deal from #Deming ’s ideas. I believe Lean is closest to Deming’s ideas (which makes sense as Lean is essentially the Toyota... management.curiouscatblog.net/2005/11/27/m...

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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

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Effective use of data is an important part of #management improvement. Emphasis is needed on “effective”; #data misuse is rampant and creates problems. Use of data by itself is not sufficient... management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/05/09/u... #leadership

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Catalyzing innovation, problem solving, and discovery, the Second Edition provides experimenters with the scientific + statistical tools needed to maximize the knowledge gained from research data, illustrating how these tools... management.curiouscatblog.net/2005/03/08/s... My father was co-author

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Abbott Elementary is a great TV show created by @quintabrunson.bsky.social The show is a wonderful reminder that good people are doing good work that is honorable, respectful and enjoyable. I find it very hard to see how badly so many in our society are behaving; especially those we have elected.

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