Re: "It is not necessary to change. Survival is optional."

["Robert W. Mason" <bob@cc-m.com>]

Dr. Deming would say at the beginning of every seminar, as Clare 
Crawford-Mason and Linda Doherty recall:  "It is not necessary to 
change.  Survival is optional."  And sometimes after one or two 
martinis before dinner he would remind people.


On May 15, 2004, at 7:59 AM, bill@scherkenbach.com wrote:

> He usually would say it after telling the story of the two hikers and 
> the bear.
>
> Bill Scherkenbach
> 512.797.0384
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