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W. Edwards Deming
Pages 64-71

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From page 65...
... He was an honorary life member of the Royal Statistical Society, the Arr~erican Society for Quality Control, the Biometric Society, the Arr~erican Society for Testing and Materials, the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers, the Japanese Statistical Association, the Deutsche Statistische GeselIschaft, and the American Institute of Industrial Engineers. By the time of his death, he had received sixteen honorary degrees.
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From page 66...
... Japan was defeated in World War II more thoroughly than any other nation in modern times. Without natural resources, with a very large population on a small amount of tillable land, anti without the benefit of conquering armies, Japan has created one of the worIcl's foremost economies.
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From page 67...
... When the U.S. Congress understood the importance of the Deming Prize in Japan as a spur to increased attention to quality, it created the Baldrige Prize in the United States.
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... He continued to work as a statistician. During the period from 1946 until 1980, he published or presented 105 papers on a wide variety of topics: the analysis of election results, the analysis of market surveys, the analysis of birth and death rates, the sampling of bulk materials, accidents with motor vehicles, statistical analysis as legal evidence, the birth and death of newspaper subscriptions, deaf patients of psychiatrists, fertility among schizophrenics, mental health of the deaf, and the use of statistics in the setting of rates for motor freight.
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From page 69...
... The rate of improvement, in many ways, was much greater than anything we could anticipate." Deming was scornful of the practices of American managers and of the business schools that taught them. He chroniclecl these practices in his oft- repeated "fourteen points," his "cleadly diseases," and his "profound knowledge." Although in 1980, no business school would acknowledge that Deming hacI clevelopec3 a new approach to business, by 1992, two years before his death, he was able to see many schools, even prestigious ones like Chicago's School of Management adopting his teachings.
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From page 70...
... In the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Argentina, schools are adopting quality methods. Second- and third-grade teachers have shown how quality management approaches applied in the classroom can enhance learning, increase student maturity and responsibility, and at the same time, make learning more enjoyable and more relevant to life.
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From page 71...
... EDWARDS DEMING 71 Dr. Deming's contributions to science, statistics, and economics were important, but his development of a comprehensive theory of management overshadows Al else.
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