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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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Economist
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Sioux City
Iowa
William Edwards Deming
W.E. Deming
W. E. Deming
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The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable.
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If you wait for people to come to you, you'll only get small problems. You must go and find them. The big problems are where people don't realize they have one in the first place.
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The individual has been crushed by our style of management today.
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It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.
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Now, we learn that a system must have an aim. Without an aim, there is no system.
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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's job is to optimize the whole system.
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Learning is not compulsory it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.
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Adopt a new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins.
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The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance.
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A system must be managed. It will not manage itself.
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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 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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The process is not just the sum of its parts.
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