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W. Edwards Deming
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W. Edwards Deming
Age: 93 †
Born: 1900
Born: October 18
Died: 1993
Died: December 20
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Sioux City
Iowa
William Edwards Deming
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product and service that will provide better living for him in the future. A second principle is that no one can guess the future loss of business from a dissatisfied customer.
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A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.
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It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.
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Adopt a new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins.
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Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford the destructive effect of competition.
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We know what we told him, but we don't know what he heard.
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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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People need to know how their job contributes.
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Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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It's not enough to do your best you must know what to do & then do your best.
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