Win-Win: The Book

Build Strong Systems

“If you love education and want the systems to survive and thrive, give this book to school board members, parents, administrators, teachers, and students to save our schools from destruction.”

—David P. Langford, Chief Executive Officer & Superintendent, Langford Learning

John A. Dues

Over the last two decades, I’ve served on the founding teams of seven odds-beating school and nonprofit teams. We’ve done good work in these schools.

But, I began to notice that the education reform movement is littered with big ideas that are rolled out fast and big only to be abandoned a few years later.

The people on the ground don’t have the systems and processes necessary to make the ideas work in practice. Left in this never-ending wake of good intentions are hard-working educators with initiative fatigue.

Then, I discovered a better way through two Eureka moments.

In 2015, I started learning how to use improvement science methods and tools. In 2020, I discovered W. Edwards Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge. This discovery lit such a fire that I spent the next 31 months researching and writing a book on this powerful management philosophy.

My approach is now built on a simple hypothesis.

I believe that a sound philosophy must serve as the foundation for all attempts at improvement.

Since those two Eureka moments, I’ve made it my mission to learn the science of improvement and to develop methods that work in real classrooms and schools.

This study has been transformational.

If you are ready to transform your organization, let’s work together to make that happen.