Certainty is certainly not creativity.

From the Comments Section: If the brain looses the ability to do mistakes, it looses the ability to be creative. Creativity is just an another act of brain, an uncertain one. Certainty is certainly not creativity. – – harsha Albert Einstein would certainly agree. Here are two of his famous quotes: “Anyone who has never Read More …

Profound knowledge for Lean Marketing

This past Thanksgiving, I had the pleasure of reviewing the Four Days with Dr. Deming Videos for the first time. Not sure, I would recommend watching it. Deming is not Steve Jobs by any stretch of the imagination. However, he does end up growing on you and his dry sense of human becomes rather enjoyable Read More …

Best Practice for Self Coaching

A special treat for me was to have Howard Guttman on my podcast. Howard is the principal of Guttman Development Strategies, Inc. (GDS), a Mount Arlington, NJ-based management consulting firm founded in 1989 and specializing in executive coaching; building horizontal, high-performance teams; strategic and organizational alignment; and management development training (www.guttmandev.com). GDS has been ranked Read More …

New Thoughts to the Supply Chain thru MRP

Chad Smith of the Constraints Management Group was the guest on the Business901 Podcast. Chad is currently writing the third revised edition of Orlickys Materials Requirements Planning with Carol Ptak (a former B901 Podcast Guest). Excerpt from the podcast: Joe:  My customers are not only looking for shortened cycles but they’re also looking for more Read More …

Lessons from Escaping the Improvement Trap

Fact: Within any industry – be it hospitals, public accounting firms, manufacturing, governmental organizations or law firms — 20% of the organizations will be dramatically improving much more effectively than 80% of their competitors.  What does the top 20% do differently than the rest in their respective industries? In The Escape the Improvement Trap: Five Read More …

An Approach to Innovation used by Disney

Innovation requires a balance between ideas and reality. In this segment Ed Muzio describes a method of keeping those two competing elements in balance to create new, innovative ideas. Ed uses an approach developed by Walt Disney and based on the roles of Dreamer, Realist and Critic. In the video are some great tips on Read More …