Cedric Chin

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Cedric Chin

Word slinger, bug fixer, and operator.

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Setting the Business Expertise Series Free

Removing the paywall on The Business Expertise Series, which covers the work of Lia DiBello and her collaborators.

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When Action Beats Prediction

One of the great paradoxes of business is that management is prediction, but entrepreneurship ... isn't. What a theory of expertise in entrepreneurship tells us about creating new things in business.

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What To Think When Looking at a Chart

In a business context, what should you think when presented with a time series? Or: a really dumb question that nobody seems to talk about.

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Lesley Sim on Skill Acceleration in Ultimate

Cedric talks to Lesley Sim about her experience coaching the Singaporean Ultimate Women's World Championship Team in 2020, her approach to skill acceleration, and why a teaching technique designed for dogs and dolphins works just as well on humans!

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Process Behaviour Charts: More Than You Need To Know

The process behaviour chart is the easiest way to differentiate between routine and exceptional variation. This is everything you need to know to use it well.

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Mental Strength in Judo, Mental Strength in Life

Results of a four month accelerated expertise experiment in Judo. Or: "I expected to learn about deliberate practice but instead learnt a ton about my mental shortcomings."

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The Deming Paradox: Operationally Rigorous Companies Aren't Very Nice Places to Work

Is it possible to be data driven and operationally rigorous and still be human centric at the same time? Deming — who came up with these data techniques — believe that it is possible. I'm not so sure.

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Creating New Drills for Deliberate Practice

A lesson from a four month accelerated expertise experiment. Or: why creating new drills for a deliberate practice training program isn't as difficult as you might think.

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There Is No Truth in Business, Only Knowledge

'Knowledge' here is defined as 'theories or models that help you predict better'. How an idea from W. Edwards Deming may well be a working philosophy of business.

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Operational Excellence is the Pursuit of ‘Knowledge’

It turns out that operational excellence results from the pursuit of a certain form of knowledge and using metrics in business is about the pursuit of this knowledge. This is Part 3 of the Becoming Data Driven series, and the result of a deep dive into the field of Statistical Process Control.

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