There's a brilliant little book Four Days with Dr. Deming[0] that goes over the red bead experiment among other things. It basically follows the format of a four day seminar that Dr. Deming used to do. It's full of wisdom like this and it does a painfully good job making you recognize all the ineffective things still going on in companies today.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34987.Four_Days_with_...