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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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Sioux City
Iowa
William Edwards Deming
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Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.
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Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.
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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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We must understand variation.
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Change the rule and you will get a new number.
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When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.
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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
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A system can not understand itself.
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You must not run your Organization as a functional hierarchy. You must understand it as a System.
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Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.
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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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Learning is not compulsory it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.
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A leader must have knowledge. A leader must be able to teach.
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We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.
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3% of the problems have figures, 97% of the problems do not.
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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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