W. Edwards Deming


The Real Meaning of Quality

Quote from last published interview with the late W. Edwards Deming.  Read story

The Power of Purpose

How can a statistician working in Japan over fifty years ago help your business? You'd be surprised.  Read story

Ensure the Quality of Your Information Systems

Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality by Larry P. English John Wiley & Sons, 518 pages, $44....  Read story

The Real Deming

Inc's editor-in-chief offers a quote from W. Latzko and D. Saunders' book, Four Days with Dr. Deming.  Read story

Quality Control

Related Terms: ISO 9000 ; Read story

Hotline

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To Lead or Not to Lead?

Power Plays by John O. Whitney and Tina Packer Simon and Schuster, 2000, 316 pages, $26 A number of recent bu...  Read story

Confessions of a Ghost

A best-selling ghostwriter explains the making of business books, and what you don't want to know about it.  Read story

Driving A Hard Bargain

DOING BUSINESS WITH BIG BUSINESS ISN'T AS SIMPLE AS IT USED TO BE. BUT THE PAYOFFS ARE STILL ENORMOUS.  Read story

On Second Thought

We throw away all sorts of things -- automobiles, washing machines, air conditioners. The apostles of remanufacturing believe we can pick up the pieces and p...  Read story

Zero-defect Management

One quality expert's advice: start running your company differently.  Read story

The Smart CEO's Reading List

Short reviews of business books recommended for the CEO.  Read story

The Classics

A noted author offers readers a guide to the best business and management books of all time.  Read story

A Skimmer's Guide to the Latest Business Books

The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management , by Art Kleiner; Jossey-Bass; August 2008.  Read story

The Preventive Corrective-Action Report

Several managers explain how they created a CAR form designed to support ISO 9000 guidelines.  Read story

Resources

A guide to more information on subjects covered in the Inc. magazine special issue: The State of Small Business 1997.  Read story

Management by Objectives

Management by objectives is a technique applied primarily to personnel management. In its essence it requires deliberate goal formulation for periods of t...  Read story

Books That Transform Companies

Profile of a company that promotes teamwork and open communications by sharing books.  Read story

Quality Circles

Related Terms: Quality Control A quality circl...  Read story

Total Quality Management (TQM)

Related Terms: ISO 9000 ; Read story

Letter To The Editor;

ARECENT NEW YORKER CARTOON pictures a blackboard bursting with obscure mathematical formulations. One scientist, looking at the board, says to a colleagu...  Read story

No Experience Required

By surrounding herself with experts, can this business owner write a success story with her obscure tea drink?  Read story

At Their Knee

Some Inc. 500 CEOs owe their success (at least in part) to mentoring from some very celebrated business icons. So what's Ted Turner really like as a ...  Read story

Creators of the New Economy

A look at why, in the new economy, amateur entrepreneurship is over, and how the professionals are now in control.  Read story

Quality Begins At Home

Zero defects? Acceptable quality levels? If only the gurus of quality control knew what it really takes to turn around a manufacturing operation.  Read story

What Ever Happened to the Class of 1983?

Profile of Inc. 500 companies from 1983.  Read story

Scoring on the Rebound

Sales at SurfSoft Inc., a 1998 Inc 500 winner, faltered until CEO Chuck Hickey picked up "The Deming Management Method" by Mary Walton. The book tau...  Read story

Magnificent Obsession

Company founder obsesses over quality control and spends millions on patent protection, all to keep his product unique.  Read story

Therapist to the New Economy

Profiles of various businesspeople who have embraced the teaching of Stephen Covey, and why.  Read story

It Takes All Kinds

Herb Stokes knows how to make diversity work for his $6-million company. Now he's on a mission to make it work for the rest of corporate America as well.  Read story

Growing Up As A CEO

After eight years of success, a CEO found that he had to change his managerial style.  Read story

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