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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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A system can not understand itself.
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The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.
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Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.
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Nobody should try to use data unless he has collected data.
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Without questions, there is no learning.
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Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.
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Anybody can achieve gains in quality by slowing down production. That is not what we are talking about.
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Change the rule and you will get a new number.
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I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan - but they don't know what to copy!
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Without theory we can only copy.
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A leader must have knowledge. A leader must be able to teach.
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The individual has been crushed by our style of management today.
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What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.
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There is no substitute for knowledge.
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Don't expect smart people to listen to you without proof.
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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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Each system is perfectly designed to give you exactly what you are getting today.
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Retroactive management emphasizes the bottom line.
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For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.
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