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I learned about Deming in undergraduate Industrial Engineering courses, learning that he had been more or less run out of the United States after the war because there was no incentive to adopt his ideas and that the Japanese embraced him and immediately began implementing his ideas in their economy (Toyota Production System is, I think, heavily based on Deming's principles).

With many, many years now of work experience as both a worker and as an engineer, I think Deming's ideas are transformative and timeless. We would have better jobs, better products, and a better economy if we lived by and practiced his principles.

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