When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGLack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets – even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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