Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGPeople don’t like to make mistakes.
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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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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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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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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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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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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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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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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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You can not define being exactly on time.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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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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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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