Well, since this blog is called ‘Squire to the Giants’, I thought it worthwhile to:

• identify who my giants are; and
• gradually add a page per giant, giving a brief explanation about them.

This list is likely to grow as and when I explore more.

My current list of giants (with links to pages as they are written) include:

• Walter Shewhart (1891 – 1967) and Donald Wheeler
• W. Edwards Deming (1900 – 1993)
• Taiichi Ohno (1912 – 1990)
• Jay Forrester (1918 – 2016) and Donella Meadows (1941 – 2001)
• Russell Ackoff (1919 – 2009)
• Stafford Beer (1926 – 2002)
• Amos Tversky (1937 – 1996) and Daniel Kahneman
• Peter Scholtes (1938 – 2009)
• Eliyahu Goldratt (1947 – 2011)
• Jim Womack and Dan Jones
• John Seddon
• Alfie Kohn
• Jeffrey Liker and Mike Rother
• H. Thomas Johnson
• Peter Checkland
• Edward Deci and Richard Ryan
• ….

Please note that my blog pages containing ‘giant’ explanations are a combination of information gathered from reading their books and related websites and my own personal views (which you may or may not concur with). However, if you notice a material error in my facts, I’d be very happy for you to (politely) point this out to me.