W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993) was a physicist/statistician with a PhD from Yale who applied the ideas of a little-known American mathematician, Walter Shewhart, to business processes.

爱德华.戴明（1900-1993），耶鲁大学的博士，兼为物理学家、统计学家。 美国数学家瓦尔特.休哈特鲜为人知，戴明将其理念应用于业务流程。

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In fact, some say you carry a faded photograph of W. Edwards Deming in your wallet instead or a picture of your spouse and children.

实际上，有人说你的皮夹子里装着戴明的褪色照片，而不是你的配偶和子女的照片。

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The Japanese lean-production school borrowed from American management gurus such as W. Edwards Deming and Joseph Juran, but put their ideas together in new ways.

日本的精益生产学派借鉴了美国的管理大师爱德华兹?戴明和约瑟夫?朱兰的理念，并以崭新的方式将它们融合到了一起。

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Japan, under the guidance of W. Edwards Deming, mastered the crucial economic laws and disciplines of the Industrial Age and began to pull ahead of the rest of the world.

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There is something to this, but Japan's national obsession with quality was apparent early in its post-war industrialisation, when it adopted the teachings of W. Edwards Deming, an American quality-control guru.

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Many management gurus, including Frederick Taylor, W. Edwards Deming (the founder of the quality movement), Henry Mintzberg and Bruce Henderson (the man behind the experience curve), were trained first as engineers.

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