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March 21st, 2023
Ricardo Semler (São Paulo, 1959) is a Brazilian entrepreneur and CEO and majority shareholder of Semco Partners. This company, originally specialized in marine pumps, is particularly known for its transformation and radical form of leadership and industrial democracy. Under…
March 16th, 2023
Walter Andrew Shewhart (1891 – 1967) was an American physicist, statistician, and engineer. Dr. Walter Andrew Shewhart is also known as the founder of today’s statistical quality control. He became known for his role in the development of the PDCA …
March 16th, 2023
Masaaki Imai (1930) is one of the founders and a very famous advisor in the field of the Kaizen, Gemba Kaizen, LEAN Manufacturing and quality philosophies. Especially the further development of continuous improvement within organizations in the form of…
March 16th, 2023
Victor Vroom (1932) is a professor emeritus of management and professor of psychology at the Yale School of Management. Victor Vroom is an expert in analyzing psychological behavior on leadership and decision making in organizations. Victor also personally created the…
March 16th, 2023
Shigeo Shingo (Shigeo Shingō; 1909 – 1990) was a Japanese industrial engineer specialized in quality control. Shigeo Shingo is known for various quality techniques concepts such as Poka-Yoke, Mistake Proofing, SMED, Just in Time Production, and Jidoka…
March 15th, 2023
Genrich Altshuller (Genrich Saulovich Altshuller; 15 October 1926 – 24 September 1998) was a Soviet inventor, engineer, scientist, journalist, and author. He is best known for his TRIZ Method of Problem Solving, a methodology for systematic innovation.
Genrich Altshuller biography…
March 14th, 2023
Ronald Heifetz (1951) founded the Centre for Public Leadership and is the King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and at Harvard University. Additionally, he is co-founder of Cambridge Leadership…
March 14th, 2023
Eliyahu Goldratt (1947 – 2011) was a lecturer, researcher, scientist and a business management guru. Eliyahu Goldratt became famous with his ground breaking Theory of Constraints (TOC) within management systems, the Drum Buffer Rope method and Critical Chain Project Management …
March 14th, 2023
Erik Erikson (born June 15, 1902 – died May 12, 1994, in full Erik Homburger Erikson), was an American psychoanalyst known for his works on social psychology, individual identity, and psychology’s interactions with history, culture, and politics. Erik Erikson…
March 14th, 2023
Amos Tversky (Amos Nathan Tversky: March 16, 1937 – June 2, 1996) was an Israeli psychologist and one of the most influential figures in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and the handling of risk. In addition to revolutionizing…
March 9th, 2023
Frederick Herzberg (1923-2000) was a clinical psychologist and is one of the major writers in management and motivational theories. Frederick Herzberg was one of the most influential management teachers and consultants of the post-world war II.
His approach focuses on…
March 8th, 2023
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish inventor, scientist and engineer. Alexander Graham Bell is credited with inventing and patenting the first telephone. He was president of the Bell Telephone Company in 1877 and…
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