Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGQuality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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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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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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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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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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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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