Dr. Deming Webcast on the 5 Deadly Diseases
Posted on August 26, 2009 Comments (4)
The W. Edwards Deming Institute has posted Dr. Deming’s 1984 video on the 5 deadly diseases of western management.
- Lack of constancy of purpose
- Emphasis on short term profits – “creative” accounting, focus on quarterly profits
- Annual Performance Appraisals – management by objective, management by fear
- Mobility of management – [see Toyota for a great example of a company that operates on different principles - where the leadership has been with Toyota for decades]
- Running a company on visible figures alone – many important factors are “unknown and unknowable.”
Dr. Deming added 2 diseases to reach his famous 7 deadly diseases: excessive medical care costs and excessive legal damage awards swelled by lawyers working on contingency fees.
Personally I believe all 7 of those diseases are still prevalent and causing damage. I do think some progress has been made on longer term thinking but far too many organizations still are extremely short term focused. And I would add two new deadly diseases of management: excessive executive compensation and an outdated intellectual property system.
Related: Deming Companies – Purpose of an Organization – Continual Improvement – Creating Jobs – New Management Truths Sometimes Started as Heresies
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August 30th, 2009 @ 2:38 am
[...] Dr. Deming Webcast on the 5 Deadly Diseases di Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog di John Hunter, che mette in onda un video di Dr. Edwards Deming sui 5 “peccati mortali” della leadership occidentale (traduzione automatica) [...]
August 31st, 2009 @ 8:47 pm
Intriguing video John – thanks for sharing! I’ve passed Dr. Demming’s message along to my readers in my weekly Rainmaker ‘Fab Five’ blog picks of the week so they too can benefit from this great webcast.
Be well!
September 28th, 2009 @ 12:47 am
After reading an interesting post of John Hunter called Dr. Deming Webcast on the 5 Deadly Diseases, I’m wondering if in today’s company we are using poisons to treat the disease of our companies…
October 25th, 2010 @ 12:46 pm
Excerpts from The Deming Library Volume XXI, Dr. W. Edwards Deming, Dr. Russell Ackoff and David Langford demonstrate that educators can begin a quality transformation by developing an understanding of the properties and powers of systems-oriented thinking…