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Out of the Crisis

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ISBN-10: 0262541157

ISBN-13: 9780262541152

Edition: 2000

Authors: W. Edwards Deming

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"Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment." According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but…    
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Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/31/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 523
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chain Reaction: Quality, Productivity, Lower Costs, Capture the Market
Principles for Transformation of Western Management
Diseases and Obstacles
When? How Long?
Questions to Help Managers
Quality and the Consumer
Quality and Production in Service Organizations
Some New Principles of Training and Leadership
Operational Definitions, Conformance, Performance
Standards and Regulations
Common Causes and Special Causes of Improvement. Stable System.
More Examples of Improvement Downstream
Some Disappointments in Great Ideas
Two Reports to Management
Plan for a Minimum Average Total Cost for Test of Incoming Materials and Final Product
Organization for Improvement of Quality and Productivity
Some Illustrations for Improvement of Living
Appendix: Transformation in Japan
Index