American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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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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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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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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We are here to make another world.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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