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- From: louis@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Louis Schmittroth)
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- Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
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- Date: 18 Dec 92 18:13:46 GMT
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- hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor) writes:
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- >edsverk@ed4000-2.lerc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Lee Atchinson) writes:
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- >>I think you are missing the point. No, I do not think the Japanese want to
- >>ruin this country. Their economic policies are setup to kill the competition.
- >>Putting people out of work here is a "side-effect" of killing the competition.
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- >I think, in general (I haven't followed all of this thread), that
- >the Japanese business policys are largly based on the strategies they
- >learned from Edwards Demming, and that they are set up to continuously
- >improve their products and make the customer first. This may have a
- >side effect of killing the competition.
-
- You are only partially right. Demming was an America industrial engineer
- who preached statistical quality control. American industry in the 50s
- wouldn't listen, but he became a reverred demi-god in Japan. Granted
- that the Japanese and the Germans became "quality conscious" before some
- American firms, but that is not the most important reason why the US is
- becoming (or already has become) a colony of Japan. Please rush out and
- read two books:
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- -->"Trading Places, How we are giving our future to the Japanese and how
- to reclaim it", Clyde Prestowitz, New York: Basic Books 1989
-
- and after that:
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- "Head to Head" by Lester Thurow.
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- Thurow says the most important thing for Americans to do is the WAKE UP.
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- Louis Schmittroth louis@cs.athabascau.ca
- NW 1/4 18 67 21 W4 Alberta.
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