RE: Having Your Style Guide and Eating Your Fries Too

[SteveFJong -at- aol -dot- com]

Guy A. McDonald" <Guy -dot- A -dot- McDonald -at- usa -dot- conoco -dot- com>wrote, "Deming's model failed 
in Japan because he did not understand the cultural differences between his 
logic and the Japanese way of approaching business."

Is that why Japan's highest industrial award for quality is called the Deming 
Prize?

Seriously, though this is not of interest to most people, your assertion is 
false. Try a Google search on "Deming failed in Japan" and you'll get back 
plenty of hits that demonstrate just the opposite. (My recommendation is 
http://www.lii.net/deming.html)

          -- Steve


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