Management Improvement Blog Carnival #163

Entry #163 of the Management Improvement Blog Carnival!

• Perfect Pricing Part Deux - More money from fewer sales by Jarrod Drysdale - "If you begin a business by thinking about price, you have already lost. Customers do not buy because of price; they buy because of the value they receive. Without value, the equation is broken."
• Enterprise OODA by Richard Veryard - "The limitations of the OODA model appear when there is too much emphasis on speed (especially response speed) and not enough appreciation of complexity."
• Why Knowledge is Superstition by Dave Trott - "When you start believing, you stop thinking."
• Yet More Musings on Muda by Jon Miller - "A good test of whether something is overproduction or overprocessing is to question the reason why the waste exists."
• Are You Having Problems with Your Problem Solving? by Tracey Richardson - "As I teach problem-solving to companies, I find many common mistakes by people who are learning/using the process. It's easy when you are in the learning process to quickly develop bad habits, and important to recognize them and develop better ones. Here are questions to help you avoid some of the common mistakes people make."
• Your stance towards learning by Ed Kraay - "We are natural explorers and scientists. So, what is keeping you from a positive attitude toward learning and exploration?"
• Fall In Love With Your Business, Not Your Business Plan by Dharmesh Shah - "I don't think business plans are completely useless, just mostly so. And sometimes, they're even dangerous."