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 DEMINGWhat should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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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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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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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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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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We are here to make another world.
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