Deming博士改善作品之故事--- 從1978年 經1982、1986到2006年

一則Deming博士改善作品之故事--- 從1978年 經1982、1986到2006年




(鍾漢清送給1978年的王主編)

Deming博士（1900-1993）在30來歲就小有名氣。
1927-1939 Mathematical physicist, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Agriculture Department
1928 Ph.D., mathematics and mathematical physics, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
1930-1944 Special lecturer, National Bureau of Standards
1935-1953 Head, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Graduate School, Agriculture Department
1936 Studied under Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher and Jerzy Neyman at University College, London, England
1938 Published Some Notes on Least Squares (Washington, D.C.: Graduate School, Department of Agriculture. 181 pp.)
1939-1945 Head mathematician and advisor in sampling, Bureau of the Census


傳記 Neyman-from life by C Reid - 1982 - Springer-Verlag New York
中文翻譯 奈曼：來自生活的統計學家 / 康斯坦絲．瑞德(Constance Reid)著 ; 姚慕生,陳克艱,王順義譯, 上海市 : 上海科學技術 , 2001[民90],

Constance Reid此書之中文，到2001已是第二次修改了。

這本書前的眾星雲集之統計學家照片，W. Edwards Deming 是屬於大張/全頁的。讀者從索引知道: Deming是介紹傳主到加州大學的主要功臣（1938）。他1936休假到倫敦去進修，當然知道這老師是世界一流人才。

他編W. A. Shewhart 的書之故事，我們比較容易懂。我們想想，從速記員的手稿到出書，這過程有多艱辛…..（Deming說， Shewhart文筆風格是複雜化大師，他改到滿意的成稿則沒人讀得懂……）

Deming 更是Neyman這本演講集的編輯/改寫者：Lectures and Conferences on Mathematical Statistics, Graduate School, U.S. Department of Agriculture ,1938

這本書印700本，很快就賣光了。Deming等人的文風都是追求清楚明白…..

這樣，到1982年Deming 只出版論文和統計專業的書。
他1978年（民68年）來台講學，我這樣記兩筆：

◎ 4月15日：聯華企業經營顧問公司舉辦「第三屆全面品管大會」戴明博士以主講人的身份發表演說，題目為：〝經營者對產品品質與成本的責任〞(Responsibility of Management for Uniformity and Economic in Manufacture)。4月11日戴明博士參觀台灣松下電器公司，12日參觀泰豐輪胎公司，13日參觀東洋培林公司，並分別做短時間演講。4月16日及17日，在台北與高雄（華王飯店）兩地舉行一天的講座，主題為：〝高階層經營者的品質經營使命與突破〞講座 (The Mission and the Break-through of Modern Quality Management in Top Executives)；月18～20日在台北舉辦三天的講座，主題為：〝經營幹部的品質改善技術〞講座，內容為【三篇論文】：【經營診斷報告(26個原則)】、好主意引起的一些問題、系統錯誤探索實例。

◎ 6月號『品質管制月刊』作「戴明博士蒞華專集」，主編王晃三在「幕前幕後」說：「……這次我個人有機會隨行戴明博士約有十天之久，對於他的講學認真神采奕奕的學者風範，以至於他個人對於我國品管的推行和對品管學會的近況的關切之情，都能親眼目睹，感念甚深。也為了這一切，我願代表本刊同仁，將本次專輯獻給戴明博士。


本次專輯中，我們登了戴明博士撰寫的「經營診斷報告】、「好主意引起的一些問題」、「系統錯誤探索實例」等三篇文字。……」除了上述，此專輯還有「戴明博士答問集錦」（唐遠榮）、「從戴明博士的品管講座談些統計的品管問題」（鍾清章）、「戴明博士蒞台講學花絮」（劉振，他記：「…這樣不辭辛勞的一再前來（事實上他沒有接受金錢上的報酬），也許是緣份吧！……」）、「戴明博士訪問記」（余紹逖等）、「『品管問題檢討與對策』講座拾零與感想」（莊榮三）、「一封短信」（盧瑞彥）。「Deming 博士的6次演講，都是 王晃三翻譯的-- 他還從Deming博士拿本 seed book ，當學會的 Deming Room之鎮寶。他早就要收集Deming 的論文集……（王主編後來出國進修…….）」


我這篇要簡述他來台所用的三篇：「經營診斷報告】(Report to Management)、「好主意引起的一些問題」、「系統錯誤探索實例」等，1978之後之改善情況---1982年和1986年上的改進。

簡記：
1982年（Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position (Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Engineering Study. 373 pp.)簡稱為QPCP版 ;
1986 版本： Out of the Crisis (Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Engineering Study. 505 pp 簡稱為OOTC版。）

*********經營診斷報告(Report to Management)：

W. E. Deming著Quality,Productivity,and Competitive Position(1982 簡稱 QPCP)將「經營診斷報告(26個原則) 」縮為21條原則，1986年改版之Out of the Crisis 中再簡化為20條原則（『轉危為安』pp.466-72）。


**********「好主意引起的一些問題」
1978年Deming博士來台，講義中有篇SOME HAZARDS OF GREAT IDEAS

當時翻譯成”好主意所引起的一些問題”。我考慮翻譯成”好主意的反效果”。

1982年和1986年版本上的改進：
1982 QPCP 保持原名（第9章）
1986的OOTC改為
“Some disappointments in Great Ideas” （第13章）
(被天下文化的施編輯竄改成” 隨機中獎”)
將hazards 改成 difficulties ，原因或許是hazards 比較不容易讓一般人了解。這hazard 有危險之風險……之義
As a result, the hazards of writing what becomes contemporary history are even greater than was true in my early book….Fortunately in meeting these hazards the business press has enhanced its coverage.

Shaping the Industrial Century
The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
（美）錢德勒 [塑造工代：代化工和制工的非凡程] 羅仲偉等(譯). 北京：華夏出版社. 2006年5月.
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另外，“of vs in”也有意思。

*****
我們再談其中關於「成本/效益分析」一例的改善：

1978年最後有一段評語。
1982年有三段評語。
1986刪去一段成兩段評語。

**********「系統錯誤探索實例」

我們姑且不談歷年來Deming在用詞遣字方面(還有我們翻譯上)的進步....

第一點，他將原先1975/1978年計算Poisson distribution的管制上下限之方法 改成比較通用的方式。
就內容而言，1982年的QPCP版加一小段上課學生的說法，而1986的 OOTC版.，Deming 博士還透露一大段他在此案寫給業主頂層主管的信（未注明是否為原先的文本）。

The Man Who Invented Management

The Man Who Invented Management
BusinessWeek
November 28, 2005
By John A. Byrne, with Lindsey Gerdes in New York

Little more than six months ago, I was sitting within a foot of Peter F. Drucker's right ear -- the one he could still hear from -- in the living room of his modest home in Claremont, Calif. Even that close, I had to shout my questions to him, often eliciting a "What?" rather than an answer. Yet when he absorbed my words, his mind remained vigorous even as his body was failing.

He had often said that at his age "one doesn't pray for a long life but for an easy death." Since then he had struggled through a series of ailments, from life-threatening abdominal cancer to a broken hip. Oversize hearing aids plugged into both ears, he had a pacemaker in his chest and needed a walker to get around his ranch home on Wellesley Drive. Over 20-plus years, I often met or spoke to Drucker in the course of reporting any number of business and management stories.

On that spring morning in April, in black cotton slippers and socks that barely covered his ankles, Drucker seemed unusually frail and tired -- not at all in a mood to ponder his legacy. "I'm not very introspective," he protested in his familiar guttural baritone, thick with the accent of his native Austria. "I don't know. What I would say is I helped a few good people be effective in doing the right things."

Let others now speak for Drucker, who died peacefully in his sleep at home on Nov. 11 at age 95, eight days shy of his 96th birthday:

"The world knows he was the greatest management thinker of the last century," Jack Welch, former chairman of General Electric Co. (GE ), said after Drucker's death.

"He was the creator and inventor of modern management," said management guru Tom Peters. "In the early 1950s, nobody had a tool kit to manage these incredibly complex organizations that had gone out of control. Drucker was the first person to give us a handbook for that."

Adds Intel Corp. (INTC ) co-founder Andrew S. Grove: "Like many philosophers, he spoke in plain language that resonated with ordinary managers. Consequently, simple statements from him have influenced untold numbers of daily actions; they did mine over decades."

The story of Peter Drucker is the story of management itself. It's the story of the rise of the modern corporation and the managers who organize work. Without his analysis it's almost impossible to imagine the rise of dispersed, globe-spanning corporations.

But it's also the story of Drucker's own rising disenchantment with capitalism in the late 20th century that seemed to reward greed as easily as it did performance. Drucker was sickened by the excessive riches awarded to mediocre executives even as they slashed the ranks of ordinary workers. And as he entered his 10th decade, there were some in corporations and academia who said his time had passed. Others said he grew sloppy with the facts. Meanwhile, new generations of management gurus and pundits, many of whom grew rich off books and speaking tours, superseded him. The doubt and disillusionment with business that Drucker expressed in his later years caused him to turn away from the corporation and instead offer his advice to the nonprofit sector. It seemed an acknowledgment that business and management had somehow failed him.

But Drucker's tale is not mere history. Whether it's recognized or not, the organization and practice of management today is derived largely from the thinking of Peter Drucker. His teachings form a blueprint for every thinking leader (page 106). In a world of quick fixes and glib explanations, a world of fads and simplistic PowerPoint lessons, he understood that the job of leading people and institutions is filled with complexity. He taught generations of managers the importance of picking the best people, of focusing on opportunities and not problems, of getting on the same side of the desk as your customer, of the need to understand your competitive advantages, and to continue to refine them. He believed that talented people were the essential ingredient of every successful enterprise.

RENAISSANCE MAN
Well before his death, before the almost obligatory accolades poured in, Drucker had already become a legend, of course. He was the guru's guru, a sage, kibitzer, doyen, and gadfly of business, all in one. He had moved fluidly among his various roles as journalist, professor, historian, economics commentator, and raconteur. Over his 95 prolific years, he had been a true Renaissance man, a teacher of religion, philosophy, political science, and Asian art, even a novelist. But his most important contribution, clearly, was in business. What John Maynard Keynes is to economics or W. Edwards Deming to quality, Drucker is to management.

After witnessing the oppression of the Nazi regime, he found great hope in the possibilities of the modern corporation to build communities and provide meaning for the people who worked in them. For the next 50 years he would train his intellect on helping companies live up to those lofty possibilities. He was always able to discern trends -- sometimes 20 years or more before they were visible to anyone else. "It is frustratingly difficult to cite a significant modern management concept that was not first articulated, if not invented, by Drucker," says James O'Toole, the management author and University of Southern California professor. "I say that with both awe and dismay." In the course of his long career, Drucker consulted for the most celebrated CEOs of his era, from Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors Corp. (GM ) to Grove of Intel.

-- It was Drucker who introduced the idea of decentralization -- in the 1940s -- which became a bedrock principle for virtually every large organization in the world.

-- He was the first to assert -- in the 1950s -- that workers should be treated as assets, not as liabilities to be eliminated.

-- He originated the view of the corporation as a human community -- again, in the 1950s -- built on trust and respect for the worker and not just a profit-making machine, a perspective that won Drucker an almost godlike reverence among the Japanese.

-- He first made clear -- still the '50s -- that there is "no business without a customer," a simple notion that ushered in a new marketing mind-set.

-- He argued in the 1960s -- long before others -- for the importance of substance over style, for institutionalized practices over charismatic, cult leaders.

-- And it was Drucker again who wrote about the contribution of knowledge workers -- in the 1970s -- long before anyone knew or understood how knowledge would trump raw material as the essential capital of the New Economy.

Drucker made observation his life's work, gleaning deceptively simple ideas that often elicited startling results. Shortly after Welch became CEO of General Electric in 1981, for example, he sat down with Drucker at the company's New York headquarters. Drucker posed two questions that arguably changed the course of Welch's tenure: "If you weren't already in a business, would you enter it today?" he asked. "And if the answer is no, what are you going to do about it?"

Those questions led Welch to his first big transformative idea: that every business under the GE umbrella had to be either No. 1 or No. 2 in its class. If not, Welch decreed that the business would have to be fixed, sold, or closed. It was the core strategy that helped Welch remake GE into one of the most successful American corporations of the past 25 years.

Drucker's work at GE is instructive. It was never his style to bring CEOs clear, concise answers to their problems but rather to frame the questions that could uncover the larger issues standing in the way of performance. "My job," he once lectured a consulting client, "is to ask questions. It's your job to provide answers." Says Dan Lufkin, a co-founder of investment banking firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Inc. (CSR ), who often consulted with Drucker in the 1960s: "He would never give you an answer. That was frustrating for a while. But while it required a little more brain matter, it was enormously helpful to us. After you spent time with him, you really admired him not only for the quality of his thinking but for his foresight, which was amazing. He was way ahead of the curve on major trends."

Drucker's mind was an itinerant thing, able to wander in minutes through a series of digressions until finally coming to some specific business point. He could unleash a monologue that would include anything from the role of money in Goethe's Faust to the story of his grandmother who played piano for Johannes Brahms, yet somehow use it to serve his point of view. "He thought in circles," says Joseph A. Maciariello, who teaches "Drucker on Management" at Claremont Graduate University.

Part of Drucker's genius lay in his ability to find patterns among seemingly unconnected disciplines. Warren Bennis, a management guru himself and longtime admirer of Drucker, says he once asked his friend how he came up with so many original insights. Drucker narrowed his eyes thoughtfully. "I learn only through listening," he said, pausing, "to myself."

Among academics, that ad hoc, nonlinear approach sometimes led to charges that Drucker just wasn't rigorous enough, that his work wasn't backed up by quantifiable research. "With all those books he wrote, I know very few professors who ever assigned one to their MBA students," says O'Toole. "Peter would never have gotten tenure in a major business school."

I first met Drucker in 1985 when I was scrambling to master my new job as management editor at BusinessWeek. He invited me to Estes Park, Colo., where he and his wife, Doris, often spent summers in a log cabin, part of a YWCA camp. I remember him counseling me to drink lots of water, ingest a super dose of vitamin C, and take it easy to adjust to the high altitude. I spent two days getting to know Drucker and his work. We had breakfast, lunch, and dinner together. We hiked the trails of the camp. And I became intimately familiar with his remarkable story.

Born in Austria in 1909 into a highly educated professional family, he seemed destined for some kind of greatness. The Vienna that Drucker knew had been a cultural and economic hub, and his parents were in the thick of it. Sigmund Freud ate lunch at the same cooperative restaurant as the Druckers and vacationed near the same Alpine lake. When Drucker first met Freud at the age of eight, his father told him: "Remember, today you have just met the most important man in Austria and perhaps in Europe." Many evenings his parents, Adolph and Caroline, would gather the intellectual elite in the drawing room of their Vienna home for wide-ranging discussions of medicine, politics, or music. Peter absorbed not merely their content but worldliness and a style of expression.

When Hitler organized his first Nazi meeting in Berlin in 1927, Drucker, raised a Protestant, was in Germany, studying law at the University of Frankfurt. He attended classes taught by Keynes and Joseph Schumpeter. As a student, a clerk in a Hamburg export firm, and a securities analyst in a Frankfurt merchant bank, he lived through the years of Hitler's emergence, recognizing early the menace of centralized power. When his essay on Friedrich Julius Stahl, a leading German conservative philosopher, was published as a pamphlet in 1933, it so offended the Nazis that the pamphlet was banned and burned. A second Drucker pamphlet, Die Judenfrage in Deutschland, or The Jewish Question in Germany, published four years later, suffered the same fate. The only surviving copy sits in a folder in the Austrian National Archives with a swastika stamped on it.

Drucker immigrated to London shortly after Hitler became Chancellor, taking a job as an economist at a London bank while continuing to write and to study economics. He came to America in 1937 as a correspondent for a group of British newspapers, along with his new wife, Doris, whom he had met in Frankfurt. "America was terribly exciting," remembered Drucker. "In Europe the only hope was to go back to 1913. In this country everyone looked forward."

So did Drucker. He taught part time at Sarah Lawrence College before joining the faculty at Bennington College in Vermont. He could be a difficult taskmaster. One Bennington student recalled that Drucker said her paper "resembled turnips sprinkled with parsley. I could wring his fat frog-like neck," she wrote in a letter to her parents. "Unfortunately, he is a very brilliant and famous man. He has at least taught me something."

Drucker was a professor of politics and philosophy at Bennington when he was given the opportunity to study General Motors in 1945, the first time he peeked inside the corporation. His examination led to the publication of his groundbreaking book, Concept of the Corporation, and his decision, in 1950, to attach himself to New York University's Graduate School of Business. It was around this time that Drucker heard Schumpeter, then at Harvard University, say: "I know that it is not enough to be remembered for books and theories. One does not make a difference unless it is a difference in people's lives."

CREATING A DISCIPLINE
He took Schumpeter's advice to heart, beginning a career in consulting while continuing his life as a teacher and writer. Drucker's most famous text, The Practice of Management, published in 1954, laid out the American corporation like a well-dissected frog in a college laboratory, with chapter headings such as "What is a Business?" and "Managing Growth." It became his first popular book about management, and its title was, in effect, a manifesto. He was saying that management was not a science or an art. It was a profession, like medicine or law. It was about getting the very best out of people. As he himself put it: "I wrote The Practice of Management because there was no book on management. I had been working for 10 years consulting and teaching, and there simply was nothing or very little. So I kind of sat down and wrote it, very conscious of the fact that I was laying the foundations of a discipline."

Drucker taught at NYU for 21 years -- and his executive classes became so popular that they were held in a nearby gym where the swimming pool was drained and covered so hundreds of folding chairs could be set up. Drucker moved to California in 1971 to become a professor of social sciences and management at Claremont Graduate School, as it was known then. But he was always thought to be an outsider -- a writer, not a scholar -- who was largely ignored by the business schools. Tom Peters says he earned two advanced degrees, including a PhD in business, without once studying Drucker or reading a single book written by him. Even some of Drucker's colleagues at NYU had fought against awarding him tenure because his ideas were not the result of rigorous academic research. For years professors at the most elite business schools said they didn't bother to read Drucker because they found him superficial. And in the years before Drucker's death even the dean of the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont said: "This is a brand in decline."

In the 1980s he began to have grave doubts about business and even capitalism itself. He no longer saw the corporation as an ideal space to create community. In fact, he saw nearly the opposite: a place where self-interest had triumphed over the egalitarian principles he long championed. In both his writings and speeches, Drucker emerged as one of Corporate America's most important critics. When conglomerates were the rage, he preached against reckless mergers and acquisitions. When executives were engaged in empire-building, he argued against excess staff and the inefficiencies of numerous "assistants to." In a 1984 essay he persuasively argued that CEO pay had rocketed out of control and implored boards to hold CEO compensation to no more than 20 times what the rank and file made. What particularly enraged him was the tendency of corporate managers to reap massive earnings while firing thousands of their workers. "This is morally and socially unforgivable," wrote Drucker, "and we will pay a heavy price for it."

The hostile takeovers of the 1980s, a period that revisionists now say was essential to improve American efficiency and productivity, was for Drucker "the final failure of corporate capitalism." He then likened Wall Street traders to "Balkan peasants stealing each other's sheep" or "pigs gorging themselves at the trough." He maintained that multimillion-dollar severance packages had perverted management's ability to look out for anything but itself. "When you have golden parachutes," he told one journalist, "you have created incentives for management to collude with the raiders." At one point, Drucker was so put off by American corporate values that he was moved to say that, "although I believe in the free market, I have serious reservations about capitalism."

We tend to think of Drucker as forever old, a gnomic and mysterious elder. At least I always did. His speech, always slow and measured, was forever accented in that commanding Viennese. His wisdom could not have come from anyone who was young. So it's easy to forget his dashing youth, his long devotion to one woman and their four children (until the end, Drucker still greeted his wife of 71 years with an effusive "Hello, my darling!"), or even his deliciously self-deprecating sense of play.

During his early consulting work with DLJ, the partners flew out to California to meet with Drucker at home. After one of his famously meandering monologues, Drucker thought everyone needed a break.

"Well, boys," he said, "why don't we relax for a few minutes? Let's go for a swim."

The executives explained that they hadn't brought their swimming trunks.

"You don't need swimming suits because it's just men here today," replied Drucker.

"And we took off our clothes and went skinny-dipping in his pool," recalls Charles Ellis, who was with the group.

Surely, Drucker never fit into the buttoned-down stereotype of a management consultant. He always favored bright colors: a bottle-green shirt, a knit tie, a royal blue jacket with a blue-on-blue shirt, or simply a woolen flannel shirt and tan trousers. Drucker always worked from a home office filled with books and classical records on shelves that groaned under their weight. He never had a secretary and usually handled the fax machine and answered the telephone himself -- he was something of a phone addict, he admitted.

PRIVACY PREVAILS
Yet Drucker also was an intensely private man, revealing little of his personal life, even in his own autobiography, Adventures of a Bystander, the book he told me was his favorite of them all. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the Drucker Archives at Claremont Graduate University contain only one personal letter from his wife to him. Doris had clipped two images from a 1950s-era newspaper, one of a handsome man in a plaid robe, fresh from a good night's sleep, another of a couple in love, man and woman staring into each other's eyes, over a late evening snack. She glued each black-and-white image onto a flimsy piece of typing paper and wrote the words: "I love you in the morning when things are kind of frantic. I love you in the evening when things are more romantic." It is undated and unsigned.

It was Doris, in her own unpublished memoir, who told the story of how she once locked Drucker in a London coal cellar to hide him from her disapproving mother. As Doris' mother turned the house upside down in a frantic search for a man she thought was sleeping with her daughter, Peter spent the better part of the night crouched in a cold, dark hole. Doris' mother had long hoped her daughter would someday marry a Rothschild or a German of high social standing. The last thing she wanted was for her to marry a light-in-the-pocket Austrian.

In his later years, as his health weakened, so did Drucker's magnetic pull. Although he maintained a coterie of corporate followers, he increasingly turned his attention to nonprofit leaders, from Frances Hesselbein of the Girl Scouts of the USA to Rick Warren, founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life, considered Drucker a mentor. "Drucker told me: 'The function of management in a church is to make the church more churchlike, not more businesslike. It's to allow you to do what your mission is,"' Warren said. "Business was just a starting point from which he had this platform to influence leaders of all different kinds."

Still, it was clear Drucker cared deeply about how he would be remembered. He tried in 1990 to discredit and quash an admiring biography of quality guru Deming, whom he seemed to consider a rival. And when Professor O'Toole assessed the influence of Drucker's landmark 1945 study on General Motors, he concluded that the guru not only had had no impact on GM but also became persona non grata at the company for nearly half a century. "I sent it to Peter, and he spent hours going over it with me," recalls O'Toole. "He was a little unhappy with it because he didn't like the conclusion. He felt he had had a big impact at GM. I thought that was either very generous of Peter or else he was kidding himself."

During the same period, Drucker, then 80 years old, penned a severely flawed foreword for a new edition of Alfred Sloan's My Years with General Motors. In one passage, Drucker quotes Sloan as saying that the death of his younger brother Raymond was "the greatest personal tragedy in my life." Raymond, however, died 17 years after Alfred. In another section, Drucker noted that the publication of the book had been delayed because Sloan "refused to publish as long as any of the GM people mentioned in the book was still alive. On the day of the death of the last living person mentioned in the book, Sloan released it for publication," wrote Drucker. In fact, Sloan generously heaped praise on 14 colleagues in the preface of his book, and all were still alive when My Years with General Motors was first published.

Whether the mistakes were a result of sloppiness or his declining intellectual power is not clear. But Drucker was no longer at the top of his game. The dean of the Drucker school, Cornelis de Kluyver, had reason to believe that Drucker's influence was on the wane -- the school was having difficulty attracting big money from potential donors. To gain a $20 million gift for its puny endowment, de Kluyver agreed in 2003 to put another name on the school, that of Masatoshi Ito, the founder of Ito-Yokado Group, owner of 7-Eleven stores in Japan and North America. Students protested, even marching outside the dean's office toting placards decrying the change. An ailing Drucker volunteered to speak directly to the students. "I consider it quite likely that three years after my death my name will be of absolutely no advantage," he told them. "If you can get 10 million bucks by taking my name off, more power to you."

In April, during our last meeting, I asked Drucker what he had been up to lately. "Not very much," he replied. "I have been putting things in order, slowly. I am reasonably sure that I am not going to write another book. I just don't have the energy. My desk is a mess, and I can't find anything."

I almost felt guilty for having asked the question, so I praised his work, the 38 books, the countless essays and articles, the consulting gigs, his widespread influence on so many of the world's most celebrated leaders. But he was agitated, even dismissive, of much of his accomplishment.

"I did my best work early on -- in the 1950s. Since then it's marginal. O.K.? What else do you have?"

I pressed the nonagenarian for more reflection, more introspection. "Look," he sighed, "I'm totally uninteresting. I'm a writer, and writers don't have interesting lives. My books, my work, yes. That's different."

戴明愛智合作社連絡【5】

戴明愛智合作社連絡（Newsletter for Chinese Deming User Groups）【5】

主旨：應用戴明之愛智系統（Deming's System of Profound Knowledge ）
本刊（原則）暫定為周刊或提早出刊（必須成員間有書信往返 --引文請說明出處 並貼於hc的 個人新聞台 simon university ）
本期執筆：鍾漢清（兼）
發行日；2005/9 月/2日 （颱風過後晴朗天）
本期主題：組織一體之領導
（編輯說明：不同主題，以「 ******」區隔；主題內隔間，採取「----- 」；引他人文章用【】表示）

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陳教授 KJ留言：「小建議一點 常言道 名正則言順 我們現代人尤其搞理工的要講究定義 閣下主編者是 " Deming Taiwan Newsletter " 抑或是 "Chinese Deming Community Newsletter" 是一還是二？」

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Chinese Deming User Groups Newsletter

出版；華人戴明學院

106 台北市新生南路3段 88號2F

TEL ：02-23650127； FAX： 02-23650128

E-mail ：hcsimonl@gmail.com

網址： http://www.deming.com.tw >

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hc 到美國品質學會（ASQ）網站，才知道台灣品質學會之落後、貧乏。該會戴明哲學討論也很豐富。知道 Frank Gryna教授過逝【他與 Juran合編的書 20-30年前劉振老師譯校過……. 】。...

感謝 Justing（Justing 還送我們許多參考資料。

） 幫忙將美國品質學會之文章A Deming Inspired Management Code of Ethics 　轉成Ｗord檔，以利進一步翻譯處理。其實我認為 Deming為專業統計人員寫的論文更可觀： Principles of professional statistical practice, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, vol.36, 1965: pp.1883-1900

***** 風雨故人來

前高雄華泰電子公司的杜紹堯總經理來訪，相談他許多網路出版的新案子，他說其負責的公司群將致力於專業之出版 ……

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鍾老師： 這篇評論文章【華文出版的現狀與發展】及回應挺有趣的。謝謝您分享這份資訊！

***** K.Y. Chung

Dear Hc, 我對這本書有興趣( 日本的製造哲學 )，但我不懂日文，有誰寫出讀書心得否？ 如何用在台灣的製造業？
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hc 搜網路，知道大凡英文文獻中談到the Japanese manufacturing philosophy 者，莫非指這些專門名詞Lean Manufacturing Philosophy

total productive maintenance (TPM).

"changes for the better" (Kaizen),

f "Just-In-Time" (JIT),

Total Quality Management (TQM)

等等

至於各大公司的獨特想法和制定，我在 Simon University 網頁談過Toshiba/Cannon………

生產力中心、中衛等處有資料可參考。

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KY ：我以前也看過用英文唱的平劇 ，酷斃了的英文布袋戲 !!!(快暈倒...) ，
誰想的...!!! http://fm.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/fun/fun02/FM043_newyork.wmv

（ hc案：這文建會資助的，不知多少人聽得懂？）

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戴老師送：這是一個四歲的德國小女生 Joy Gruttman 所唱的「小鱷魚Snappy 」(Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil) 。歌詞內容是描述一條小鱷魚，嘗試張開口咬牠爸比的大腿。

這可愛的兒歌已經登上德國流行榜榜首，成為歷年來打入流行榜十大的最年輕的歌手。

http://blog.sina.com.tw/archive.php?blog_id=8416&md=entry&id=7082

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HC 一次錯誤之 Case Study

5 月底，我將開給台灣Dupont 的「 SPC研討會」發票給他們，並附 2戶頭A 與 B，希望他們匯入。其實，我應該給 A與C 戶，因為B 在永和，我幾乎未使用，

所以我一直等不到該款項，就請他們幫忙。一查（彼此通話對照），原來 2個月前就入帳。

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一次補修

我有兩雙球鞋都脫膠。我知道工廠使用南寶品樹脂再加熱來封合。（ Nike為達環保承認，必須使用黏著力較弱的）。

你猜，我如何解決這問題 …….

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周前，紐約時報報導 GM（現代）等等公司的許多RECALL 事件……

日本則弄 Honda 偷偷試驗開發新車之醜聞……

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觀察美國 The Deming Institute 的聚會可以知道分成年會

譬如說， October 19-21, 2005 在West Lafayette, Indiana
主題為：
How to Create Unethical, Ineffective Organizations That Go Out of Business
(Many Organizations Do It, But Do You Know How You Do It?)

另外身份是統計學家作為改善之諮商。

我們都放掉他 1980之前的主要業務是法律方面的：

the Symposium on Deming's Analytic Papers in NYC on Monday, 26th September, 2005.

【 Although many people know Dr. Deming mainly for his work in management, he is better known in the statistical and legal communities for his analytic work, especially sampling theory and practice. He was known to handle 50 or more legal cases in a year. The Institute is co-sponsoring a one-day symposium that will focus only on his statistical work. 】

這些案件之資料都收入美國國會圖書館。 The Deming Institute有獎助金鼓勵研究者。

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最近紐約時報轉型之議題又扯出 90年代初，董事長找 Deming當顧問之故事。他建議由現在在美國紐約 Fordham大學主持戴明學者 MBA的學生負責。

我最感興趣的是紐約時報集團如此無法管理， D 應付得了嗎？

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我參訪中央研究院統計研究所之網站。該所現任所長為實驗設計理論專家。不過我發現隨著趙民德先生轉成兼任研究員（不知道這是否意味退休），該所與產業界的關係似乎變成天外遠。

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今天台灣蘋果日報的 headline case 之台灣相關人員，我都有二手接觸資料，他們都是抽樣專家， …..

我最驚訝的是中共統計局的副座（五人）之「學歷」，只是學士。

反觀台灣改名的前主計長 …….