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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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Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force
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Survival is optional. No one has to change.
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The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.
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People work in the system. Management creates the system
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When we cooperate, everybody wins.
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The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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The transformation will come from leadership.
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The most valuable currency of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority.
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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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The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.
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A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.
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Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.
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The problem is that most courses teach what is wrong.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.
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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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Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.
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The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
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