Re: Deming 2005 - Question 2 of 2 (SoPK)

[WyoCheek@aol.com]

I was raised not be prone to be disciple stupid. In dental  school, fully 
tenured professors were not immune from being  questioned. In fact it was part of 
your training to discover the medical  facts. So when I began working on the 
Deming CD, knowing nothing about him as it  was a clinical project to me, as 
the producer I questioned everything Deming  said, what others wrote, and the 
subject matter experts I encountered. I  needed to know several things 
professionally. One was finding an answer to  why Deming selected certain topics he 
included and lecture on?  The other was "What did he really say verses what 
people can remember or  had interrupted?" I was constantly treated by some as a 
hieratic to even  question the master professor, and yet I had an audio where he 
says to this lady  teasingly but seriously at the same time, "... well, yes 
you should  question me" when she asked if she could. 
 
There is another Deming audio section where he says, "....a little thing I  
call Profound Knowledge." He goes on to proclaim and describe his four areas,  
and then he says the most enlightening thing I have never read in any DEN  
dialogue or Deming book on the subject. Finishing his component  section comments 
Deming adds, "... you can add anything else, any  subject you want."  Hence 
even Deming did not limit SPKn to only  four areas but cited several other 
"ologies" areas as examples one could  add next. 
 
I wonder if maybe "worker teaching worker and off to the  Milk Way we go " 
has been occurring for some time?  The entire SPKn,  proclaimed as fact, never 
made much sense to me as when it  is defined using only the fours areas. It 
was, as if suggesting,  one only need to master these subject matter areas, and 
you will master  management by the profound knowledge gained. Our personal as 
well  as business system lives are just not that simple we do not need  to know 
but these four areas or at least mine is not. The entire  proclamation 
sounded like "instant pudding" to me when I first  read about Deming's SPKn concept. 
 
S Cheek DDS