Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
W. EDWARDS DEMINGSo nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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The prevailing – and foolish – attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he’s managing.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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