July 16, 1995 Siam News
The Three Careers of W. Edwards Deming
By Michael J. Tortorella
W. Edwards Deming, the modest but outspoken man who died of cancer on December 20, 1993, was one of the world's best-known advocates for quality. He bestrode the management consulting world with a deep conviction that the solutions to our problems would be simple it we would only turn from the comfortable but ineffective attitudes of the past and embrace the concept of minimization of variation (along with all its very unfamiliar ramifications).
Deming was born 0ctober 14, 1900, in Sioux Falls, Iowa, and grew up in Powell, Wyoming. Much has been made of the influence of his frontier upbringing on his beliefs in the importance of people, the value of cooperation, and the deadliness of waste. Whatever their source, there is no doubt that these values shaped his life and work and caused him to be the bearer of a message that many of the world's religious leaders, philosophers, and advocates of positive thinking would find familiar. Do your best, continually seek to improve that best, look out for the people you are responsible for, and recognize that everyone is in this together.
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