Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIf you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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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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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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We are here to make another world.
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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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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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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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I am forever learning and changing.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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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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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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