Deming was a bureaucratic statistician. He was a brilliant opponent of convention, competition, and capitalism. At heart he was a romantic socialist. Consider the following:
"We have grown up in a climate of competition between people, teams, departments, pupils, schools, universities. We have been taught by economists that competition will solve our problems. Actually, competition, we now see, is destructive. It would be better if everyone would work together as a system, with the aim for everybody to win. What we need is cooperation and transformation to a new style of management."
W. Edwards Deming, The New Economics, 2ed,MIT CAES, 1994, p. xv |
