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.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWhen a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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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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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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