What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIt is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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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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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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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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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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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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We are here to make another world.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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