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Marshall is the author of the Leader Behavior Questionnaire (The Visionary Leader), used widely in research and executive development. His current consulting assignments include major projects on measuring organizational excellence and changing organizational cultures through leadership. Recent and current clients include General Electric, TRW, the World Bank, and the American Express Company. Marshall's academic focus has been research in the areas of leadership, participation, and organizational change.
These problem sources are attributable to, and are the responsibility of, management, not workers. Deming calls them common causes. No matter how motivated workers may be to do a good job, problems caused by the systemcommon causescannot be corrected by telling employees to try harder, by rewarding them for better results, or even by punishing them for undesirable outcomes. Managers typically assume that problems (like too many oversized ball bearings) are caused by employees' actions. Deming believes, however, that such assumptions are usually wrong, that the real causes are often beyond employees' control.
A native of Oklahoma, Ken earned a bachelor's degree in political science and economics and a master's degree in sociology from Oklahoma State University. He went on to receive his doctorate in sociology from the Ohio State University. The focus of his doctoral study was on systems analysis. From 1985 to 1991 Ken was Associate Director of the Virginia Productivity Center. He was also, from 1988 to 1990, a visiting professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).