Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGPeople don’t like to make mistakes.
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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 enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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