The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Total Quality Management

6/9/21 audiobook update:
Dr. Orsini does an excellent job of reviewing and organizing many of Dr. Deming’s less statistical papers. These papers are a series of writings throughout his career but are primarily focused in the 1980s and 1990s. Through these papers, you can see that he lives his life with the consistency of purpose. The consistency of his messages doesn’t change much through his writings.

I believe, if alive today, Dr. Deming would be a leading blogger. He used so many methods for communicating his teachings. I think he would have been enamored with the ability to reach a wide range through blogging. Rather than reaching 100’s through memos, lectures, and letters, he would reach 1000’s.

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8/23/14

I loved this book. It is well organized, well-edited, and a wealth of knowledge.

A collection of Deming’s thoughts in bite-sized pieces. I am a very slow reader and I think that was one of the things I liked best about this book, you could read a couple of letters or essays and pick right up two or three days later where you left off with another essay.

Although I have only read one other Deming book, Out of the Crisis, I think this may be the most definitive collection of work and it is definitely deserving of the title the Essential Deming!