In Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGYou should not ask questions without knowledge.
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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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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
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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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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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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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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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 result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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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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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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