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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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Industrial Engineer
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Sioux City
Iowa
William Edwards Deming
W.E. Deming
W. E. Deming
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A leader's job is to help his people.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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There is no substitute for knowledge.
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All models are wrong some models are useful.
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A system must be managed. It will not manage itself.
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People are entitled to joy in work.
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He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.
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Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.
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Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved for decades: Traditional performance appraisals don't work.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individuals contribution far more than the individual himself.
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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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A rule should suit the purpose.
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Adopt a new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins.
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We are here to make another world.
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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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