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Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved for decades: Traditional performance appraisals don't work.
W. Edwards Deming
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Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.
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The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.
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All models are wrong some models are useful.
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The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer.
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Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.
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Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.
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Managing by results only makes things worse.
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The problem is that most courses teach what is wrong.
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3% of the problems have figures, 97% of the problems do not.
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Change the rule and you will get a new number.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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There must be consistency in direction.
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Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
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The customer is the most important part of the production line.
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If someone can make a contribution to the company he feels important.
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Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.
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Many people in management are being paid to produce waste.
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Survival is optional. No one has to change.
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It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.
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To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for
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It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth
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The most important things cannot be measured.
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Judging people does not help them.
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