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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
W.E. Deming
W. E. Deming
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A rule should suit the purpose.
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When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, Figuring out how to think about the problem.
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Nobody should try to use data unless he has collected data.
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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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Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require 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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The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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Management's job is to optimize the whole system.
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We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual.
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Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.
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Meeting specifications is not enough.
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Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.
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A leader is a coach, not a judge.
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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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A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.
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Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.
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When a worker has reached a stable state, further training will not help him.
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There is no knowledge without theory.
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The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that innovates and is lucky will take the market.
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