About. Management by Walking About. If you say it that way the folks east of the East Coast (Good day, Brits.) will understand it. 😀

Supposedly created by Ford. I don't think that it actually started with him but he made it famous. Demming picked up on it and taught it in Tokyo. He encapsulated it as part of teaching that there is a corporate culture and that the workplace is a micro-cosim of society in general.