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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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Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.
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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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Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.
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Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.
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To optimize the whole, we must sub-optimize the parts
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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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A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in, the responsibility of management.
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People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.
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Knowledge needs to be a verb.
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The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.
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Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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The transformation will come from leadership.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.
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No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.
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