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The Deming Management Method - by Mary Walton (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Whether you're the owner of our own small business, a middle manager in a mid-sized company, or the CEO of a multinational, this book can show you how to improve your profits and productivity.
- About the Author: Mary Walton worked as a journalist for the Philadelphia Inquirer for more than 22 years.
- 288 Pages
- Business + Money Management, Management
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About the Book
Whether you are the owner of a small business, a middle manager in a mid-sized company, or the CEO of a multinational, this book can show you how to improve your profits and productivity. Change, Dr. Deming believes, should start at the top with an informed, quality-conscious management. His 14 points for managers offer practical applications for everyday business life.Book Synopsis
Whether you're the owner of our own small business, a middle manager in a mid-sized company, or the CEO of a multinational, this book can show you how to improve your profits and productivity. How? By following the principles of The Deming Management Method.Middle- and top-echelon managers in particular will find Dr. Deming's method provocative and controversial. He is for a total revamping of the way American managers manage. Some of his pet peeves are: managers who manage by slogans or by setting quotas, managers who don't know what their jobs are and who can't define the responsibilities of the workers under them, managers who tend to blame workers, not realizing that workers want to take pride in their work. Change, Dr. Deming beliees, starts at the top with an informed, quality-conscious management. This book includes excellent advice on how to achieve that level of management expertise in the author's analysis of Dr. Deming's famous 14 Points for Managers and his Deadly diseases of management.
Dr. Deming's management techniques are all carefully explained in this detailed, step-by-step treatment of their major points and of their practical applications to everyday business life.
A large portion of The Deming Management Method is devoted to practical applications of the method by some of American's most innovative firms, including Honeywell, AT&T and Campbell's Soup.
Review Quotes
"I'm proud to say I'm a Deming disciple, and we at Ford are committed to his operating principles, particularlly the ethic of continuous improvement and and the involvement of all employees."
-- Donald E. Petersen, Chairman of the Board (retired), Ford Motor Company
"W. Edwards Deming is to management what Benjamin Franklin was to the Republican conscience -- a guide, a prophet, an instigator. Here in one book is an incisive summary of his wisdom."
-- Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor
About the Author
Mary Walton worked as a journalist for the Philadelphia Inquirer for more than 22 years. She has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Harper's Magazine, and other publications. Walton lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.