Cupertino, CA -- February 11, 2009 -- Michael Arthur Johnson Company announces the creation of an online discussion group forum to capture and share experiences, feelings and best practices associated with the Deming Red Bead Experiment.

The forum is hosted by the Linkedin Networking site and be reached by  [Red Bead Experiment Discussion Group - join on LinkedIn]

Developed for  [Dr. W. Edwards Deming in 1982], and used by Dr. Deming in his seminars worldwide before his passing in 1994; the Red Bead Experiment provides an excellent way to demonstrate Dr. Deming’s 14 Obligations of management (14 Points) as written in his books like "Out of the Crisis" and "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education".

There must be several hundred thousand players and observers of the Red Bead Experiment in play over the past twenty seven (27) years from his seminars; from use by trainers, companies and educators who have purchased a copy of the Red Bead Game kit.

The Red Bead Experiment is famous for creating that "ah - ha" reaction by the players as they begin to understand the finer points of Dr. Deming's theory.

Mike Johnson desires to capture the feeling of these reactions and to share best practices among past, current and future users of the RedBead Game. Current Internet social networking technology allows for easy group discussion and the sharing of comments and experiences.

Join this http://www.redbeadexperiment.org [Red Bead discussion group] and describe your feelings and suggestions for use of the Red Bead Experiment in today’s business and education climate.

The [name red bead is a metaphor] for the problems that we experience every day in our life. The world is a never ending supply of problems. You get up in the morning and solve the problems of the day. Solve one problem and more problems appear. It is the way of the world. 

When you play the game, each player uses a special metal paddle to draw small red and white colored beads from a large bowl. Each draw of the paddle gets 50 beads. Some are white and some are red. The white beads symbolize the good things that we experience each day as we do our work and the red beads symbolize the problems or bad things that we experience. As each player draws their paddle full of 50 beads each player receives a different mix of red and white beads. 

There are many teaching examples as you play the game. One of the examples that the teacher makes is that our lives experience different things each day some good and some bad. We as workers most of the time have no control over our experiences. We the worker did not make the company our bosses did and we should not be held responsible for most of the mistakes. 

Yes, we can control about 4 out each 100 problems but not the other 96 they are problems created by the system. 

If our bosses want us to do better work, they need to employee specialists to ask us questions and then design improvements to the system to remove the problems (red beads) that we find each day.

For further information,  [contact Mike Johnson], +1-408-255-1785