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one can learn from the consumer. Since Service industry plays huge role in economics, the improvement of economics and the quality cannot do without the improvement of the quality and productivity in service organizations, what the main point of the Chapter 7 is. All the areas of the service industry are touched by the author, everywhere the attention is focused on the specific items in each particular sphere of the service industry. An abundance of realistic examples shows the professionalism of the author and his understanding of the problems. “... The aim of the leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Actually , most of this book is involved with

leadership.” (Ch 8. pp. 248) - It is stated in Chapter 8, which expands the 7th Point of Deming. The leadership does not mean to tell what to do, but it is actually telling the people how to do, how to improve what has to be done, how to know how to do, how to evaluate by the means of statistical control. Some good examples are given . The charts reflect the way of examining the problems and give the answer to many questions. Before even starting to improve the quality, everyone has to meet the requirement to accept operational definitions. There is no any way out in improvement process without standards and regulations, which start with operational definitions. These and other important questions are discussed in Chapter 9 and Chapter 10. The failure to understand the

information in variation causes the central problem in management and leadership. In Chapter 11 it is spoken of faults of the system as common causes of trouble, and faults from fleeting events as special causes. The content of this chapter includes the deepest analysis of many real examples taken from companies and proves that statistical control of the system using control charts lets discover both common and special causes. “ More examples of improvement Downstream” - Chapter 12 is like a continuation of Chapter 11. The next chapter provides us with the latent danger of any new philosophy - some disappointments in Great Ideas. Every new theory has its advantages and disadvantages. Not everything in the new philosophy is so good as it may seem from the first view. But as it

is said, “ disappointments arise from failure to understand four basic axioms.” (Ch. 13. pp. 388) Not only theoretical knowledge and examples from the real life are given in the book “Out of the Crisis “. E.W. Deming solves a bunch of practical problems from various spheres of industry, proving the fairness, clearness and ability to apply his theoretical reasonings. The bibliography of sources for advanced study is given as well in Chapter 15. How to organize the system in the company, how to reorganize the present system into the system, reaching improvement in quality, productivity, minimizing of costs is discussed in Chapter 16. Some very elementary examples from the everyday’s life in Chapter17 - “Some Illustrations for improvement of living “ are presented by

the author. The Appendix refers to the whole of the book “ Out of the Crisis “. The Japanese phenomenon demonstrates the world the importance of total quality idea. “ The whole world is familiar with the miracle of Japan, and knows that the miracle started of with a concussion in 1950. (...) Suddenly, Japanese quality and dependability turned upward in 1950 and by 1954 had captured markets the world over. The new economic age had begun. What happened ? “ (Appendix, pp. 486) Will the American economy guess the riddle of Japan ?