Another factor was that from the end of the war until perhaps the middle '60s, American manufacturers had a ready made market for practically anything they could produce while Europe and Japan rebuilt their war-ravaged economies.  And I think it is no accident that, from about the mid '60s on, European and Japanese companies began to out innovate and out compete the Americans with newer, more modern facilities and newer, more modern management structures.  Deming tried to sell Total Quality Management to Detroit first and got no traction whatsoever.  They were entirely too fat, dumb, and happy with the status quo.  The Japanese, on the other hand, bought into TQM wholesale.  The rest, as they say, is history.

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