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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.

W. Edwards Deming

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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Action Behaviour Rational Reactive Relax Require Theory
Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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Come Customer Innovation Producer
Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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Boast Bring Customer Friend Project Service Them
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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Another Country Eliminate Improvement Position Present Productivity Retrain Secure Worker
The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Do Emphasis Job Should We Why
Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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Compulsory Learn Neither Survival
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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Anywhere Attitude Foolish Good Knowledge Manage Manager No Prevail Process Production Special
A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Bad Every Good Neat Person System Time
The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Administrative Better Increase Machine Men Productivity Sure Way
The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Better Cost Long Lower Quality Relationship Result Term
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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Destroy Enterprises Job Meeting People Target Probably Them Upon
Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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Eliminate Include Management Numerical Objective Quote
It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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Best Do Enough Know Must To Your
I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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Ago Five Four Manufacture Over Predict Protection Scream Took World Year
Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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Al Knowledge Lack One Liner Problem
Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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Customer Good Least Mean Quality Sell Some Try Will

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