The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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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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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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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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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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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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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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