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# Management Improvement Carnival #14
- URL: https://www.kevinmeyer.com/management-impr-4/
- Published: 2007-07-01T04:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-10T22:49:40.000Z
- Author: Kevin Meyer
- Tags: Superfactory, #Migrated-1752356847400, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-07-12 14:48

Evolving Excellence has been asked to host this issue of the Management Improvement Carnival. Please submit your favorite management posts to the carnival.

- **People Are Our Most Important Asset** at Curious Cat. "One of the beliefs I try and get the organizations I work for to adopt is to truly value excellent people."
- **Reducing Waste for Shoppers** at Lean Blog. "The traditional grocery store is to spread out common items to force you to walk the whole store – that’s waste for the customer. Target is trying a new approach."
- **Boring Wins Championships** at Lean Six Sigma Academy. "... team’s like San Antonio win the same way companies like Toyota and Danaher win. It’s not flash, or fancy words, or even Michael Jordan."
- **An Innovation in Value Stream Integration** at Lean Reflections. "Here’s where the construction industry has come up with an innovation I have not heard mentioned in manufacturing – the integrated relational contract."
- **10 Common Misperceptions About Lean Manufacturing** at Gemba Panta Rei. "There is nothing inherently Japanese about Lean manufacturing, nor are Japanese people naturally better at Lean than any other people."
- **The Virtues of Authenticity vs. the Dangers of Hypocrisy** at Bob Sutton. "If a leader pushes a philosophy, he or she better mean it, or the hypocrisy will become obvious to everyone, and breed cynicism both inside and outside the organization."
- **Durable and Great** at Six Sigma Blogs. "... innovation cannot be pursued in and of itself. Innovation is the complement to operational excellence..."
- **Innovation is a 4-Hour Process** at LifeDev. "They’ll work on the idea for 4 hours, and then evaluate whether they should continue or scrap it."
- **The Holy Crap Reaction To Competition** at Instigator Blog. "When you’re working on a stealth startup, moving at a 100 miles a minute to get to market, and you think you’ve got a killer idea worth millions, you can’t help but feel stunned when you discover new competition."
- **Homegrown Ethnography** at Shmula. "The Toyota Production System makes effective use of visual cues to mark location in time and space, boundaries, and to answer the questions "How am I doing?"
- **Unanswered Questions** at Edge Perspectives. "It’s appropriate to step back occasionally and reflect on what we don’t know, rather than simply sharing what we know."
- **Why Startups Often Beat the Big Boys** at Business Pundit. "... a leader must also make sure the vision doesn't become tunnel-vision."
- **[Be Careful What You Measure](https://www.kevinmeyer.com/be-careful-what/)** at Evolving Excellence. "Take the time to really understand what you are measuring, and whether a positive trend is really a positive."