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David on Quality: December 2013

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013. 2013 Recap / 2014 Goals. First, let's recap 2013? 1 Lose that weight - get down to 175 max. Got down to 172, maintained it for about 5 months, then I got hungry. Now I'm back to 179. 2 Exercise 3 times per week (at least 1/2 hour on treadmill to start - expand from there). My reality is I'm lazy, other than skiing, I did manage to get on the treadmill once or twice a month.maybe in 2014. 3 Increase quality time with my wife. Increase bankroll by $20k. 4 Visit 6 customers.

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David on Quality: November 2012

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Thursday, November 29, 2012. World Quality Month - Nov 2012. In honor of World Quality Month 2012 A View from the Q. Asks, "Why does it take so long for what is known to be true to become common practice? Or, perhaps more importantly, what can we do to accelerate the rate of adoption of quality? So what needs to be done in the 21st century to jump-start the future. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. ASQ Quality News Today. Influential Voices of Quality.

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David on Quality: March 2012

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Sunday, March 18, 2012. About a 1 1/2 years ago I was invited to be a part of the ASQ Influential Voices team (see the list of bloggers running down the right side of this page). This team responds monthly to questions posed by ASQ CEO Paul Borawski in his blog A View from the Q. This month Paul discusses the topic of 'Selling Quality'. My first questions with regard to this topic is "should we need to sell quality? Next - to whom must we, the quality professionals, sell quality? Links to this post.

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David on Quality: December 2012

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Friday, December 21, 2012. In A View from the Q. This month, Paul Borawski asks "What’s your case for a raise? Links to this post. 2012 recap - 2013 goals. At the beginning of 2012 I established personal and professional goals. I am posting the goals and results below:. I must loose 15 pounds and maintain my new weight through the year. I start the year at 187 lbs. I will lose 5 pounds for each of the next 3 months and then maintain that loss. I expect to end 2012 weighing 172 max. Our Somerville facilit...

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David on Quality: October 2012

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Monday, October 15, 2012. Beyond the traditional quality function. I always enjoy posting in response to Paul Borawski's post on A View from the Q. And this month is no exception. The question of the month: 'How well understood and embraced are the contributions of the quality professional beyond what is traditionally thought of as the quality function? Let me begin my answer by telling a story:. Okay, enough he said / I said. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.

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David on Quality: September 2011

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Sunday, September 11, 2011. Cathartic message of 9/11/2001. As stated in my blog entitled '9/11 Ten Years Later' I said I would post my cathartic letter.here it is in its entirety - you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll rejoice in life! Recently, a friend asked how I was doing in light of the events of 9/11. Here is what I told her:. I am working for as a Quality Assurance Engineering Consultant for Siemens Transportation. Than in my own. Well, I went anyway. Naturalized citizen of the. A place I like to call...

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David on Quality: August 2012

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Friday, August 31, 2012. Quality Culture and Feelings. Paul Borawski ASQ CEO touches upon the concepts of Quality Culture and its relation to Feeling in this months A View from the Q. So why does the transition to the right path have to be painful (make us feel uncomfortable). I believe it is because we reach a level of comfort that does not allow for achieving the overall goal.making money by satisfying our customers. That said, let me now address one of Paul's questions:. Hire into the organization?

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David on Quality: January 2013

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Thursday, January 31, 2013. Which comes first when you are implementing Process Control (SPC) - DOE or Control Charting? Simple question, right? Well, I am in a repeat situation (last time this happened was nearly 20 years ago) where an organizational leader expects a timeline for implementation of SPC but cannot see that the optimizing the process must come first. What is your opinion, what what you do? Links to this post. Sunday, January 13, 2013. How to define Quality. Happy New Year readers! I’...

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David on Quality: How to define Quality

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Sunday, January 13, 2013. How to define Quality. Happy New Year readers! In my first post for 2013 I will attempt to take on the challenge from Paul Borawski in ASQ's A View from the Q. To define Quality. So here we go. I don't think so, but it is a good start. The reason ask if I am done is that in my opinion quality cannot have one single definition. It is the qualifying aspects of the word Quality that make one single definition impossible. I have always favored two definitions:. ASQ Quality News Today.

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Quality Matters: July 2014

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Thursday, July 17, 2014. In my previous blog post, "In Search of performance Excellence". I spoke on the importance of leadership and strategic planning to organizational success and performance excellence. In his 1989 book “On Becoming a Leader,” Warren Bennis offers a distinction between leaders and managers as: the manager does things right; the leader does the right thing. The Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence's Leadership. How do they set the vision and values? 3M captures the spark of ne...