The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGResearch shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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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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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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