Maybe he revolutionized industries because he saw a world without them, because he understood what digitization has wrought.
The leadership piece of Deming was critical because he understood that it was the system that caused outcomes, not individuals.
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He learned to please his bosses because he understood that all that mattered was getting hits, selling millions of records and generating big profits.
Shackleton never lost a man in the Antarctic, despite being marooned there in 1915, because he understood his people, got them to make sacrifices for the common good, and earned their love and respect.
He said the judge had granted the government leave to appeal because he understood that if it was to send young people into operational environments then "we have to have clarity and stability about the legal circumstances in which they go".
And it is because he understood that people live each day within a variety of value systems that he could write a great poem about how two people could allow appetite, seemingly rational argument and love to lead them to disobey a divine command.
Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man up Everest, used to say that if you were in real trouble in a difficult place you needed an explorer called Ernest Shackleton, because he understood his people, knew how hard it was to lead well, and was prepared to do the right thing.
Mr Bush did not win because he better understood some tectonic force at work.
Steve Jobs captured our imagination because he really understood his customer.
That other side he often understood because it was in his genes and upbringing.
When things looked awkward with car workers in Detroit he said he understood them because his wife owns a couple of Cadillacs.
But because they heard all the mental issues, they understood what was going on in him and understood why he did what he did.
And I've already addressed that, because he said, "I was defining the term as the judge told me to define it and as I understood it, " which I think is a reasonable explanation.
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