Test 2
All over the world, in every kind of business and organization, in every kind of crisis and dilemma, the principles of defensive reasoning encourage people to leave their own behavior unexamined and to avoid any objective test of their premises and conclusions.
HBOrg
Companies need to be concerned about the collapsing birthrate in developed countries.
Mg21
Do not award contracts on the basis of price.
OtC
Everyone supposes that he knows what pollution means until he begins to try to explain it to somebody.
OtC
Management by walking around is hardly ever effective.
OtC
The goal in production should be not just to get statistical control, but to shrink variation. Costs go down as variation is reduced. It is not enough to meet specifications
OtC
In the absence of an explicit project management methodology, decisions are made incrementally.
PMMM
The true definition of failure is when the final results are not what were expected, even though the original expectations may or may not have been reasonable. For simplicity's sake, let us define failure as unmet expectations.
PMMM
TF Strategic planning for project management is the development of a standard methodology for project management, a methodology that can be used over and over again, and that will produce a high likelihood of achieving the project's objectives.
T
TF If you are managing a process, you would expect that the specification limits would be contained within the control limits.
F
TF Manual workers should ask, "What is the task?"
F
TF The control limits of a process are the limits a manager sets to insure that he receives the quality he desires from a process.
F
TF When Deming talked about the system determining the success of the workers, he was primarily talking about knowledge workers.
F
Everyone knows that the way things are formally organized in most companies is not the same as the way things are actually done.
HBOrg
Few people recognize that Disney's managers use different collaborative patterns with different products. The many products created from the success of the Lion King movie brought in over 3 billion dollars in revenue.
HBOrg
Managers focus so earnestly on "positive" values--employee satisfaction, upbeat attitude, high morale--that it would strike them as destructive to make demands on employee self-awareness.
HBOrg
When confronted with a problem, people act as though discussing it, formulating decisions, and hashing out plans for action are the same as actually fixing it.
HBR Org
One important action conclusion from the feedback analysis is thus to overcome intellectual arrogance and work on acquiring the skills and knowledge needed to make one's strengths fully productive.
Mg21
One of the functions of government is to redistribute wealth.
Mg21
President Eisenhower apparently did not know himself that he was a reader and not a listener.
Mg21
There is more than one way to manage people.
Mg21
Workers should be paid according to their productivity, that is, for their output, rather than for their input, for example, for hours worked.
Mg21
Knolwedge Workers must manage themselves
Mgt. Challenges for 21st Century
Today, methodologies for project management mandate horizontal accounting using earned value measurement techniques..
PMMM
TF A good reason to train an employee in a task is so that the employee will reach a state of statistical control in doing the task and as a result, the variability of his work will be less than it would be otherwise.
T
TF A stable process is one that is in statistical contro
T
TF A worker can be in a state of statistical control and the work can be unsatisfactory.
T
TF Coevolving companies reward business units for individual performance, not for collaboration.
T
TF Effective project management requires that stakeholders have a common understanding of terms.
T
TF It is important that an organization has one methodology that everyone uses.
T
TF One theory states that people who talk more often and longer--regardless of the quality of their comments---are more likely to emerge as leaders of new groups.
T
