The American Genius Japan Listened To That Destroyed Detroit

In the lobby of Toyota's headquarters in Tokyo, three portraits hang on the wall. The founder. The chairman. And a third, larger than both, belonging to an American statistician from Wyoming. His name was W. Edwards Deming, and the ideas he carried to Japan in 1950 would bring the American auto industry to its knees. But those ideas were born in America. Deming offered them to Detroit first, and Detroit turned him away. So how did one man's rejected theories cross the Pacific and come back as the force that destroyed the city that ignored him?