If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWhenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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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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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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We are here to make another world.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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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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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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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