Common Ground

• Shared vision: Reducing variation from the ideal results in outcomes where everyone benefits or at least, are not any worse off in the long-term.  
  
• Common language: Anyone that has made a successful change has successfully applied the variation principle. using different terms. Knowledge of common and special causes of variation, stable (predictable) and unstable systems can lead to more success. Common inferences to “systems” are routines and habits. What’s your story?
  
• Common Method: Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Improvement Cycle. Motivation (plan), Action (do), Feedback (variation) and Learning (knowledge).

W. Edwards Deming was a world leader in quality improvement, supported a secular approach, and was a devout Christian. Book at Amazon:  Deming: “The Way We Knew Him by Frank Voehl. Excerpt: Chapter 14 Involve Everyone in the Transformation. Includes the Requiem given at Deming’s funeral mass.

• Foundation Principles for Leaders

Why has the west been so successful?  Ben Shapiro, PragerU.   (Video Length 5:43)

The Judeo-Christian tradition teaches that God created an ordered universe and that we have
an obligation to try to make the world better.

The Western world has produced some of the most prosperous and most free civilizations on earth. What makes the West exceptional? Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief of the Daily Wire and author of “The Right Side of History,” explains that the twin pillars of religious revelation and reason — emanating from ancient Jerusalem and Athens — form the bedrock for Western civilization’s unprecedented success. Transcript:  Shapiro-Why_Has_the_West_Been_So_Successful-Transcript

The American civil war is over Judeo-Christian values. Dennis Prager: ‘Without the God of the Bible, there are no moral facts’ By Dennis Prager