Deming was the man. But being a systems thinker, and seeing the corporate idiocy (just watch his talks on management), I suspect he knew that a system cannot be

Deming was the man. But being a systems thinker, and seeing the corporate idiocy (just watch his talks on management), I suspect he knew that a system cannot be transformed, it can be destroyed and rebuilt. Japan was a great opportunity fro him to rebuild a system the right way.