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Why Dr. Deming’s Work is So Important to Me

Deming Institute

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I was fortunate that my father had an opportunity to be a student in the famed four-day seminar, while working as an engineer at the Cadillac division of General Motors, in the late 1980s. Edwards Deming.

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Good Leaders Don't Use Bad Words

Harvard Business Review

According to its search engine, however, the world''s largest bookseller doesn''t have a single "offers innovation" title. But the real question confronting leaderships is how much can language alter thoughts and influence behaviors? Communication Innovation Leadership' Language matters. Is that an opportunity? This may be true.

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