What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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We are here to make another world.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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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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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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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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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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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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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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In Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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