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management.curiouscatblog.net is a personal blog at management.curiouscatblog.net about business and productivity. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-22, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for management and quality thinking grounded in W. Edwards Deming. Posts cover how unemployment is measured, mistakes at work, and why British industry declined.
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What Hacker News says?
The German pay for factory workers isn't so great, by the way. Income structure is more flat in Scandinavia, for instance; compared to Sweden and Finland, Germany has cheap factory labor cost. However, the main problem with British industries and collapse of some of them in 1970's was unionisation and political fighting. This included even outright sabotage, and of course abysmal build quality. My uncle had a Morris…
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on “Why the Raspberry Pi will save the UK”Submitted Joel Spolsky Webcast on Creating Social Web Resources as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe article provide interesting information on the process for calculating the unemployment rate. But it also misleads in saying "real US unemployment rate." Dr. Deming would say "there is no true value" of any measured process. The results depend on the process which includes the operation definitions. http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2009/11/05/deming-there... Over time the value of a measure (as a proxy measu…
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on “What's the Real U.S. Unemployment Rate? We Have No Idea”Submitted The Defect Black Market (2008) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDr. W. Edwards Deming said it a long time ago, even before this quote from his 1982 book Out of the Crisis (MIT) "I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system (responsibility of management), 6% special." An attitude embraced by The Toyota Production System and now embedded in Lean thinking. http:/…
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on “Mistakes at Work Are Not Sins”Submitted Steve Jobs on Quality, Business and Joseph Juran as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted George Box 1919-2013 (statistician) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maslow: To deal with authoritarians, take for the bastards that they are as a story · 1 points
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