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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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To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge, knowledge for leadership of transformation.
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Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.
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The process is not just the sum of its parts.
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Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.
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Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.
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Experience by itself teaches nothing.
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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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Learning is not compulsory it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.
W. Edwards Deming
Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.
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A leader's job is to help his people.
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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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It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to - that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated. Support is not enough action is required.
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The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours.
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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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The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.
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To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for
W. Edwards Deming
You must not run your Organization as a functional hierarchy. You must understand it as a System.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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