The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGEliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets – even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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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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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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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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