MetaFilter posts tagged with Quality

She Certainly Leaves an Impression

Alex404 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:34:28 -0800

Great Moments in Movie History. Scenes in a film taken out of context can be very funny. Though sometimes they were just funny anyway. Highlights Involve: Miscommunication, Painful Loss (NSFW), Astute Observation, Dubious Strategy, and Thrilling Combat.

The Death of High Fidelity

chunking express — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:17:41 -0800

The Death of High Fidelity

"Management's job is to improve the system."

Brian B. — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:53:07 -0800

W. Edwards Deming: Noted consultant, and proponent of total quality management. The prevailing forces of destruction start early in life-grades in school from toddler on up through the university, gold stars for school athletics, merit system or annual appraisal on the job, incentive pay, work standards, MBO (rather, MBIR: Management by Imposition of Results), MBR (Management by Results). These forces of destruction must be replaced by leadership.... The transformation will restore the individual; will abolish grades in school on up through the university; will abolish the annual appraisal of people on the job, MBO, quotas for production, specified requirements that people work 57 minutes out of every hour, incentive pay, monthly or quarterly reports on business targets, competition between people, competition between divisions, and other forms of suboptimisation. Leadership will replace these bad practices, and will restore the individual.

The Metaphysics of Quality

malaprohibita — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:03:05 -0800

Korea, the Beats, Quality, and Mental Illness: A fantastic interview with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance's Robert Pirsig.

Does it matter whether you think this is Best of the Web?

Gyan — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:49:20 -0800

Reviewing peer review.

Best Universities in the World

Gyan — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:20:48 -0800

The Times Higher Education Supplement's World University Rankings [link to PDF]

Which are the better hospitals?

daksya — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 19:08:48 -0800

Hospital Compare: which are the better hospitals in your area?

Governors Work to Improve H.S. Education

Postroad — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:02:31 -0800

Governors Work to Improve H.S. Education The nation's governors offered an alarming account of the American high school Saturday, saying only drastic change will keep millions of students from falling short. "We can't keep explaining to our nation's parents or business leaders or college faculties why these kids can't do the work," said Virginia Democratic Gov. Mark Warner, as the state leaders convened for the first National Education Summit aimed at rallying governors around high school reform.

solistrato — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:06:34 -0800

The Salon Death March continues. I personally thought the nadir was the cover story last week featuring a photographer reminiscing about almost nailing Marylin (not work-safe), but no...now Salon has dared to crawl into the underbelly of this country and expose the horror of...hippie parents. Good to see the most high-profile online magazine tackling these hard-hitting issues. How's that stock price doing again?

revbrian — Thu, 03 May 2001 04:59:16 -0800

Bottled water a waste of money, no better than most tap water, and environmentally unfriendly.