Have any progressives heard of W Edward Deming?

Answer 1

W. Edwards Deming was born in 1900 and was raised in Wyoming. He attended the University of Wyoming in 1917. He wrote music most of his life;
Statistician, Allied Mission to Observe the Greek Elections, January-April 1946; July-October 1946 Consultant in sampling to the Government of India, January and February 1947; December 1951; March 1971
Delegate from the A.A.A.S. to the Indian Science Congress, New Delhi, January 1947
Adviser in sampling techniques to the Supreme Command of the Allied Powers, Tokyo, 1947 and 1950
Teacher and consultant to Japanese industry, through the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers 1950, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1960, 1965
Member of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Statistical Sampling, 1947-52
Consultant to the Census of Mexico, to the Bank of Mexico, and to the Ministry of Economy, 1954, 1955
Consultant., Statistisches Bundesamt, Wiesbaden, 1953
Consultant to the Central Statistical Office of Turkey, 1959-1962
Lecturer, London School of Economics, March 1964
Lecturer, Institut de Statistique de l'Universite de Paris, March 1964
Consultant to the China Productivity Center, Taiwan, 1970, 1971
Lecturer in Santiago, Córdoba (Argentina), and Buenos Aires, under the auspices of the Inter American Statistical Institute, 1971.

He was a brilliant. In his life time he had received many alkaloids

Answer 2

I'm not a progressive and I've heard of him. He was a civilian advisor to General MacArthur in Japan after the Second World War and brought about most of the post-war progress in that country. American managers are nudged towards studying his methods. At the same time Japanese managers are nudged towards studying the management ideas of Douglas McGregor. Curiously, there is little official recognition of Mister Deming in Japan. There is a statue of Douglas McGregor in Chiyoda-Ku, the financial center of Tokyo.