The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.
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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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Don’t do market research.
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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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