What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
W. EDWARDS DEMINGProfit in business comes from repeat customers.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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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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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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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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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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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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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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We are here to make another world.
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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 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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I am forever learning and changing.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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