Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe 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 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 big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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