Other Relevant Items

TEXTS

• ‘Homer Sarasohn and American involvement in the evolution of Quality Management in Japan, 1945–1950’, by N.I. Fisher, International Statistical Review, Volume 77, 2009 (pdf, 257 KB)
• ‘Global Knowledge Transfer and Telecommunications: The Bell System in Japan, 1945–1952’ by Stephen B. Adams and Paul J. Miranti, Enterprise and Society, September 20, 2007 (pdf, 153 KB)

Far too many people ... believe that being bright is a substitute for knowledge.

Peter F. Drucker, Boston, Massachusetts (1999) - quote from the book

• A brief history of the ‘CCS Manual’ (pdf, 14 KB) From the Hopper Archives, Hackettstown NJ.
• ‘Basic Initial Post Surrender Directive to Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers for the Occupation and Control of Japan (JCS1380/15)’ (1945) (pdf, 129 KB)
  Clauses 25 a. and b. of the Directive have been highlighted in yellow by the authors of THE PURITAN GIFT — see page 108 of their book
• ‘Report to Western Electric on Activity with the U.S. Occupation Forces in Japan, November 1948 to May 1950’ by C.W. Protzman (pdf, 7,5 MB) From the Hopper Archives, Hackettstown, NJ.
• Foreword by Frank Polkinghorn to ‘CCS Manual’, 1950 edition (pdf, 844 KB) From the Hopper Archives, Hackettstown NJ.
• Complete Third English-language Edition of ‘CCS Manual’ (link to external pdf)
  alternative sources: PDF (710 KB) and Web Edition (external link)
• Homer M. Sarasohn's letter to the Editor, New York Times, September 1, 1985 (pdf, 13 KB) From the Hopper Archives, Hackettstown NJ.
• ‘A lesson learned and a lesson forgotten’ by Robert Chapman Wood (Forbes. February 6, 1989) (pdf, 6.4 MB)
• Cover and pages 3-19 of Second Japanese-language Edition (1993) of ‘CCS Manual’, including Foreword in English by H. Sarasohn (pdf, 1.1 MB)
• ‘An Agency for Change’, lecture given by Homer Sarasohn in December, 1995 to a seminar organized by Kenneth and William Hopper in the Embassy of Japan, London (pdf, 515 KB) From the Hopper Archives, Hackettstown NJ.
• ‘A festival of nine Japanese lessons’ by Tim Dickson (Financial Times, December 20, 1995) (pdf, 1.2 MB)

    
2008 Irish Government Presentation reprinting of the first (Tokyo) edition of the CCS Manual. From the Hopper Archives, Hackettstown, NJ.

LETTERS
All from the Hopper Archives, Hackettstown NJ.

• Letter from Brigadier-General George I. Back, Chief, Civil Communications Section to Charles Protzman dated March 28, 1950 (pdf, 499 KB)
• Letter from Robert Heller, Editor, Management Today, to K. Hopper dated August 16, 1966 (jpg, 310 KB)
• Letter from Dr P. Drucker to K. Hopper dated October 3, 1981 (pdf, 990 KB)
• Letter from Prof. A.D. Chandler to K. Hopper dated August 12, 1983 (pdf, 450 KB)
• Letter from Prof. R.H. Hayes to K. Hopper dated December 26, 1984 (jpg, 580 KB)
• Letter from Prof. R. Hayes to K. Hopper dated February 6, 1985 (jpg, 650 KB)
• Letter from Prof. A.D. Chandler to K. Hopper dated July 8, 1985 (pdf, 380 KB)
• Letter from Prof. M. Tribus, Director, Center for Advanced Engineering Studies, MIT,  to K. Hopper dated May 6, 1988 (pdf, 490 KB)
• Letter from Prof. Y, Kondo, Deming Prize winner, to K. Hopper dated October 29, 1992 (pdf, 310 KB)

VIDEOS

• BBC HARDtalk, January 1, 2003: Tim Sebastian interviews Hugh Thompson Jr, the U.S. soldier who halted the My Lai massacre: video of interview (24.25 minutes, requires real player). See page 192 of THE PURITAN GIFT for an explanation of how the Cult of the (co-called) Expert lead to this dreadful event.

LINKS

• www.honoringhomer.net - a site honouring Homer Sarasohn, one of the engineers who taught good contemporary American manufacturing practices to the Japanese under the US Occupation (1945 – 1952) – see Chapter 10 of THE PURITAN GIFT: ‘Three Wise Men from the West Go to Japan’ (pdf, 82 KB).

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