The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGDeclining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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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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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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 the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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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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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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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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We are here to make another world.
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