If Dr Deming is ever to be relevant in a wide-scale the control of his philosophy by many consultants must be put off. Most do not understand the basic motivation of Dr Deming as he influenced Japanese society, His motivation was people. The well-being and improvement of the Japanese people after the consequences of World War II. The orphans and the homeless. The fathers who could not support their family and the mothers who could not feed their children. These are the things that haunted Dr Deming and became his motivation for his unceasing beating of the drum of glimpses of how humans act and respond. A philosophy that is contrary point of a view of a Machiavellian perspective. Instead of the manipulation of people to keep power and provide few with the greatest good, there is cooperation to provide the most with the greatest good. This is where we are today in our culture on every level. Do we provide the greatest good to the few or the many, and how do we provide it, by opportunity or brute force.
When I say consultants are in control of Dr Deming's philosophy let me qualify this by saying most. I do not know all consultants. And so to the few who do not distort the philosophy of Dr Deming and do not refuse to understand the essence of Dr Deming's wisdom, his heart for the good of all people, I say welcome. But no solicitation. Start by helping folks with free advice, advice to the grass roots. How ironic that this is turning into the age old argument attached to the arts. If financial gain becomes our incentive, rather than art for art sake, what happens to the art. I see the philosophy of Dr Deming more as an art than a science. The art of cooperation for the benefit of the most. In the art of "people management" our culture has been corrupted by greed.
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