The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGCustomer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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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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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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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 prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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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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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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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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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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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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