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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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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Hopper Archives (.pdf files)
CCS Manual, Reports, Letters, Lectures
 A brief history of the "CCS Manual"
 "Basic Initial Post Surrender Directive to Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers for the Occupation and Control of Japan (JCS1380/15)" (1945)
Clause 25 a. and b. of the Directive have been highlighted in yellow by Kenneth and William Hopper, authors of The Puritan Gift
 Foreword to the "CCS Manual" (1950) by Frank Polkinghorn
 Complete Third English-Language Edition of the "CCS Manual"
 "A lesson learned and a lesson forgotten" by Robert Chapman Wood (Forbes, February 6, 1989)
 Cover and pp. 3-19 of Second Japanese-Language Edition (1993) of the "CCS Manual," including Foreword in English by H. M. Sarasohn
 "An Agency for Change," lecture given by H. M. Sarasohn in December, 1995 to a seminar organized by Kenneth and William Hopper at the Embassy of Japan, London
 "A festival of nine Japanese lessons" by Tim Dickson (Financial Times, December 20, 1995)


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