Books in 2022

Next year will be a busy year for me publishing-wise. The 2nd Edition of the DevOps Handbook just dropped yesterday. A "prototype name" book called "Investments Unlimited" from IT Revolution should drop next summer. Think Goal/Phoenix Project style book about a failing investment bank. More to come on this later. And if you are reading this blog post right now, it's probably no surprise that I have been working on a book about Dr. Deming for the past year. Think Moneyball meets Guns Germs and Steel with Dr. Deming as a philomathical Forest Gump. Here's a teaser from a chapter called Made in Japan.

“How does one go about rebuilding an entire economy from literally the ground up? How do you go from this war zone to the Japanese Economic Miracle? How does "Made in Japan" go from being a joke to spawning juggernauts? Let me put it a different way. What one person would we choose if we had to ferret out the primary catalyst of this transformation? Homer Sarasohn would probably point to the Civil Communications Section while he was at the helm. Others point to the Training Within Industry program that the US-sponsored. Many would point to Dr. Joseph Juran. Deming would tell Clare Crawford-Mason that it was one man with "profound knowledge.” All would be wrong. The single most important catalyst of the restoration and eventual dominance of the nation's economy was not a foreigner. Japan's savior was a humble forty-two-year-old Japanese man living in Tokyo and a German literature college dropout. Who'd picked up statistics somewhere along the way.”