What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIf you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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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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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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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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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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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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So 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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