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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Japanese Authors
 "CCS Management Course," Nikkei Industrial Daily, April 24, 1989, 5 pages, (trans).
Inoue, Bunzaemon."My Thoughts on Education within the Company," Nippon Sangyo Kunren Kyokai, based on lecture delivered December 16, 1983, 11 pages.
Inoue, Bunzaemon. "Foundation of Japanese Style Management," Sumitomo Electric Industries and Sumitomo Rubber Industries, May 30, 1984, 29 pages.
Karatsu, Hajime."Quality Control — The Japanese Approach," speech delivered at a seminar under the auspices of Electronic Industries Association of Japan, Washington, D.C., March 25, 1980, pp. 12-16.
Karatsu, Hajime. "Quality Control, QC Circle and Productivity," Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., March 1984, 17 pages.
Kobayashi, Koji."Quality Management at NEC Corporation," Quality Progress, April 1986, pp. 18-23 (selected passages highlighted).
Nakajima, T."Management perspectives: Looking Back, and Looking Forward," lecture material, Japan Management Association, 14 pages, (annotated by HMS).
Nakaoka, Tetsuro."Production Management in Japan Before the Period of High Economic Growth," Essays on Science: Felicitation Volume in Honour of Dr. Joseph Needham, Hakim Mohammed Said, editor (Nazimabad, Karachi, Pakistan: Hamard Foundation Pakistan, n.d.), pp. 154-180.
Nonaka, Izumi."The History of the Quality Circle," Quality Progress, September 1993, pp. 81-83.


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