Bull Wranglers

Quality professionals

The Bull Wranglers are Anthony D. Burns and Michael McLean speaking their minds on quality.

Anthony Burns, Ph.D., has a bachelor of engineering and a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He has 36 years of experience and his company, MicroMultimedia Pty. Ltd., is responsible for the development of the e-learning quality product Q-Skills and its support tools.

Michael McLean is the founder of McLean Management Consultants in Australia. He is a thought leader in transformance: the alignment of strategic, tactical, and operational plans to unlock transformational performance at every level of an organization. His passion is to help organizations achieve the holy grail of both stakeholder satisfaction and the highest possible levels of return on investment. He co-developed Q-Skills with Anthony Burns.

Wed, 06/26/2013 - 11:55
Terminal Madness Short-, medium-, and long-term capability
Wed, 06/26/2013 - 11:55
There are more than 1,100 textbooks referring to “short-term process capability,” as distinct from “long term.”  Surely 1,100 textbooks can’t be wrong? Let’s apply the first Bull Wrangler test. Does short- and long-term process capability make…
Turn Down the Cognitive Dissonance It’s deafening to people trying to think
Tue, 02/26/2013 - 11:29
Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.—Carl Bernstein Every form of media inundates us with information, most of it misinformation, scams, lies, and foolishness. The quality industry is by no means exempt from the flood. In this…