A bad system will beat a good person every time.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGPeople 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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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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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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We are here to make another world.
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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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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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