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To: Father Terrence who wrote (53396)	8/28/1999 9:22:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Although I agree with you that many corporations have not adopted his management methods. His presence has been felt. The dominate Taylor management model is largely dead. Replaced by a hodge-podge of Deming, Juran, Ishikawa, Covey, Taguchi, Shein and many more. The point is, he was the focus point for American corporations to re-learn what they needed to in order to compete. Had they not sensed that "urgency to change" many large busineses like Ford, GM and GE would never have changed. America would then have looked for other answers with regard to protectionistic measures and our economic decline would have been assured. Michael

To: Father Terrence who wrote (53396)	8/29/1999 5:36:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

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