When I scroll LinkedIn I’m definitely not ready to read carefully long reads.
I opened one article with no images and no interaction. I couldn’t just start reading it. I wanted to scroll and consume it. I tried the exercise two more times, slowing down myself, and didn’t get through the first screen. I can complain a bit about the post-COVID health state, where reading any problematic reading is becoming especially tough. But more questions, of course, are to me that I need to slow down myself, carefully choosing what I am eating as food and information food, too.
I’m still in the beginning of the way Vitaly Sharovatov recommended book “The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality.”
I love everything, especially the first chapter, “The World Is Being Ruined by Best Efforts.” I like the way Deming described deadly diseases. Luckily, they have remained true for decades, not only in the American but also worldwide market. I can’t better reformulate them, I need just quote four of them.
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“Lack of constancy of purpose to plan product and service that will have a market and keep the company in business, and provide jobs.”
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“Emphasis on short-term, profits: short-term thinking. … Short-term profits are not a reliable indicator of performance of management. Anybody can pay dividends by deferring maintenance, cutting out research, or acquiring another company.”
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“Evaluation of performance, merit rating, or annual review. These traditional appraisal systems reward people who do well in the system. They do not reward attempts to improve the system.”
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“Mobility of management. The job of management is inseparable from the welfare of the company. Mobility from one company to another creates prima donnas for quick results….”
Two different ideas for one post is obviously a bad idea for sharing. Okay, let it be tough :)
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