We are pleased to once again host the Management Improvement Carnival! A sampling of interesting posts from various leadership and management blogs over the past couple weeks include:
- Curious Cat takes on the timely issue of excessive executive pay, especially those executives who received lavish pay packages at companies losing money.
- Shmula describes his experience and observations while sitting in a Jiffy Lube waiting room.
- Gemba Panta Rei suggests twelve leader standard work questions to ask while at the gemba.
- Lean Blog author Mark Graban is justifiably proud of winning the Shingo Prize for his book Lean Hospitals. Congrats!
- TimeBack asks why "thinking time" isn't part of our standard work.
- Lean Six Sigma Academy observes a process change, not necessarily for the better, while dining at a restaurant.
- Got Boondoggle describes how synergy can be a multiplier in a lean transformation.
- Bob Sutton follows the debate on whether business schools are responsible for the financial meltdown.
- Quality and Innovation helps us get our work "mojo" back.
- Process Rants uses some practical examples to show us how simpler can be better.
- Unfolding Leadership gives us some practical words of wisdom in dealing with layoffs.
- Evolving Excellence warns us about the perils of going to China in today's economy.
