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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.

W. Edwards Deming

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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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Anywhere Attitude Foolish Good Knowledge Manage Manager No Prevail Process Production Special
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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Ago Five Four Manufacture Over Predict Protection Scream Took World Year
All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Al Competitor Customer Else Expect Expectation Know Nothing Only
My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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Anything Biggest Hate Model Mother My never Role Taught Waste
Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Accountable Everybody Hold Ridiculous
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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Another Country Eliminate Improvement Position Present Productivity Retrain Secure Worker
You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Cost Customer Dissatisfied Know replace
What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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Aim Job Management Should
Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Fear Figure Get Whenever Will Wrong
Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Any Manager Expand Market Well
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Action Behaviour Rational Reactive Relax Require Theory
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Change Mandatory Necessary Not Survival
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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Bought Disaster Everything Much Nobody Prescription Produce Quality
Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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Business Come Customer Profit Repeat
Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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Increase Inflation Less Maintain Paid Price Profit Want Worker
The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Do Emphasis Job Should We Why

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