Re: Drucker, Deming and Quality

["C. Robert Clements" <clementz@kos.net>]

Since discovering the DEN I have been searching for personal connections 
between Deming and Drucker.

Only recently I stumbled upon some notes 
<www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2001/deminginputs.doc> prepared by Gerry 
Hahn made in preparation for the 2001 Deming Lecture. Therein Drucker is 
reported to have written, "I last talked to Deming five days before his 
death--he called to say Good Bye."

It seems a close, personal connection, yet these two men mention each 
other's work only rarely, and then, only in passing.

My quest continues.

Thanks again,

Bob Clements