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The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education
..". competition, we see now, 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."In this book W. Edwards Deming details the system of transformation that underlies the 14 Points for Management presented in Out of the Crisis. The syste...more
Paperback, 265 pages
Published
July 31st 2000
by MIT Press (MA)
(first published November 30th 1991)
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I'm not a manager, businessperson, economist, statistician, or anyone who might have professional reasons to read this book. I decided to read it because the text for my business history class said that W. Edwards Deming was involved in post-WWII developments in management technique, including quality circles and statistical quality control. I remembered that my father used to do something with statistical quality control at his job, so I asked him if he knew anything about Deming. He laughed an...more
I didn't know what to expect from this - and it turned out to be one of the strangest reads I've had for a long time. The tone of the whole book reads like the translation I have of The Art of War.
Despite being brief, Deming covers a huge amount here. The key topics are:
* systems - treating organisations as wholes rather than bags of parts
* variation - understanding why the output of a system is not perfectly uniform, and the impact this has on correct management
* knowledge - building theories t...more
Despite being brief, Deming covers a huge amount here. The key topics are:
* systems - treating organisations as wholes rather than bags of parts
* variation - understanding why the output of a system is not perfectly uniform, and the impact this has on correct management
* knowledge - building theories t...more
Deming knew what he was talking about. Don't get me wrong, what he's advocating is idealist socialism, but it would really work if human greed and all other vices stayed out of the equation. He uses Scripture a lot to back up his ideas or to make a point, a not so well-known fact of Deming.
Another wonderful book on system thinking.
Required reading!
This is for a group I am in that focuses on Systems Thinking--the idea of managing and making decisions collaboratively and based on what is good for the entire system, vs. each unit going off and doing their own thing without consulting with other areas. Not that I work anywhere that actually follows this philosophy! But it is interesting to see how a truly functioning system works together for full productivity and high worker morale.
Interesting book. It excited me to research more about statistics and validating Kanban's assumption of requirements as throughput measurement.
A brutally simple view and description of what is wrong with management thinking. Deming introduces his profound system of knowledge which, I would consider, is to systems thinking what the communist manifesto was to communism.
Of all the depth and knowledge in this book, the main point I walked away with is that you don't have to screw or stab someone else to get ahead. Works with Asian cultures. Perhaps, not so much with Western culture.
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I've been wanting to read this for a while and now that school is over they have started a discussion series at Canoga Park and I can't wait!!
currently learning a system of profound knowledge.
Easy to read, good practical examples.
Easy to read, good practical examples.
Intro to systems thinking... very smart and practical for managing organizations.
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