Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual.
W. Edwards Deming
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
W. Edwards Deming
Age: 93 †
Born: 1900
Born: October 18
Died: 1993
Died: December 20
Composer
Economist
Engineer
Industrial Engineer
Statistician
University Teacher
Sioux City
Iowa
William Edwards Deming
W.E. Deming
W. E. Deming
Bring
Individual
Back
Smothered
Management
More quotes by W. Edwards Deming
The aim should be to work on the method of management.
W. Edwards Deming
Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.
W. Edwards Deming
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.
W. Edwards Deming
You do not install quality you begin to work at it.
W. Edwards Deming
Management does not know what a system is.
W. Edwards Deming
The most important measures are both unknown and unknowable.
W. Edwards Deming
I am not reporting things about people. I am reporting things about practices.
W. Edwards Deming
Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.
W. Edwards Deming
Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.
W. Edwards Deming
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.
W. Edwards Deming
People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.
W. Edwards Deming
There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones.
W. Edwards Deming
A leader knows who is outside of the system and needs special help.
W. Edwards Deming
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.
W. Edwards Deming
Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.
W. Edwards Deming
Quality is everyone's responsibility.
W. Edwards Deming
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
W. Edwards Deming
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.
W. Edwards Deming
He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.
W. Edwards Deming
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.
W. Edwards Deming
