Laziness or arrogance. Like when the engineer and statistician W. Edwards Deming suggested improvements in manufacturing, but US manufacturers ignored him. >W

Laziness or arrogance. Like when the engineer and statistician W. Edwards Deming suggested improvements in manufacturing, but US manufacturers ignored him. >Why were Deming's views on quality control initially ignored in the United States? >Following World War II, Deming was largely ignored in the productivity-crazed United States. ... The message Deming made to the United States was that productivity without quality was a dead end. He attempted to teach engineers his philosophy, but the companies they worked for were focused on other things.