Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAll customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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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 prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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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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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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