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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Articles and Speeches (.pdf files as available)
    America's World Leadership Revisited
    The Battle for Market Share
    CCS: An Agency [for Progress] Through Change
    Criteria for Managers
    The Evolution of Japanese Product Quality
    Hiroshima Prelude
          
unpublished article on the release of the atomic bomb
    Japan in Mid-Passage
        Bata Conference
    Japan's Progress in Power:
        From Industrial to Economic
    The Japanese Advantage in the Marketplace:
        The Challenge of the '90s
    The Japanese Style of Management
    Management Perspectives:
        Looking Back, Looking Forward
    Post-War Japan:
        The Birth of an Industrial Power [audio]
    Progress Through a Commitment to Quality
    The Prophet [Profit] of Change
          
printed as Chapter 7: "The Return of the Herald Angel"
          in Deming: The Way We Knew Him, by Frank Voehl
    Quality, Innovation, and Learning
    Re-Building the Post-War Japanese Communications Industry
          
extract from interview with Myron Tribus
    Retrospective
    Shewhart
    Total Quality Management


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