Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Evolution of Work
by Richard Donkin

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Chapter 15: Whatever happened to Homer Sarasohn?

On the afternoon of 21 November 1949, in Osaka, Japan, a young radio engineer from Raytheon stood in front of a classroom full of Japanese telecommunications experts and began to lecture them on the fundamentals of business management. The engineer's name was Homer Sarasohn....

When Sarasohn entered the wooden-framed lecture room to deliver his first class he was just thirty-three years old. In front of him was the cream of Japanese telecommunications talent, people like Masaharu Matsushita, the adopted son of Konosuke Matsushita, the charismatic founder of Matsushita Electrical. It would not be an overestimation of the importance of the occasion to say that when this young American radio engineer mounted the podium, paper in hand, the hopes of Japan were assembled at his feet....