When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGSo 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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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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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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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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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 prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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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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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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