Honoring Homer Sarasohn
Homer Sarasohn
1916-2001

Japan's Post-War Recovery
Homer's farewell address upon leaving Japan in 1950

CCS: Industrial Management
The fundamental training tool Homer used to help rebuild the Japanese economy

Creating Japan's New Industrial Management: The Americans as Teachers
       Kenneth Hopper
       (copyright restrictions
       removed by author)

Remembering Homer Sarasohn
       David Howard

Whatever happened to Homer Sarasohn?
       Richard Donkin

A Lesson Learned, A Lesson Forgotten
       Robert Chapman Wood

How Homer Sarasohn Brought Industrial Quality to Japan
       Robert X. Cringely

Quality or Else
       Lloyd Dobyns, et.al.

Profiles in Quality
       Louis E. Schultz

Quality Assurance and Reliability in the Japanese Electronics Industry
       Michael Pecht
       William R. Boulton

Deming: The Man and the Legend
       Jerry Bowles

When the Boss Starts to Talk About Quality Should I Really Listen?
       Myron Tribus

 

Homer Sarasohn, pioneer in quality management, passed away on September 28, 2001.

Shirley Sarasohn
Shirley Sarasohn, Homer's constant source of support.
1917-2001

CCS course graduates
Graduates of the CCS management course, with Homer Sarasohn, Frank Polkinghorn, and Charles Protzman front row center, left to right. Osaka, 1950.

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HOMER IN JAPAN


A leader's main obligation is to secure the faith and respect of those under him. The leader must himself be the finest example of what he would like to see in his followers.”
 
—Homer Sarasohn, 1948
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InterviewsSpeeches Other Audio

Interviews (128-bit .mp3 files with minor editing and noise removal)

 Scottsdale, AZ
with Myron Tribus
[DVD]
July 17, 1988
 ATT&T Quality History Project • Short Hills, NJ
with Jeff Sturchio
[VHS]
American Society for Quality
Quality Information Center • Milwaukee, WI

May 19, 1989

KTKK Talk RadioProvo, UT
with Martin Tanner

July 18, 1990
Scottsdale, AZ
with Lisa Sarasohn
October 1992

Speeches
    Perspectives on the
        Japanese Style of Management
        [partial recording]
December 1989
Sun City Engineers
Sun City, AZ
    Post-War Japan:
        The Birth of an Industrial Power
        [practice]

September 8, 1992
American Society for Quality Control

Minneapolis, MN


Other Audio
    "The Coming War with Japan"
        [excerpts]
    "Making America Great Again"
        James Fallows on Japan


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