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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
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Managing by results only makes things worse.
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You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method.
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Quality starts in the boardroom.
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One need not be eminent in any part of profound knowledge in order to understand it and to apply it. The various segments of the system of profound knowledge cannot be separated. They interact with each other. For example knowledge about psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.
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Management is prediction.
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A leader's job is to help his people.
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The aim should be to work on the method of management.
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Learning is not compulsory it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.
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A leader knows who is outside of the system and needs special help.
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There must be consistency in direction.
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The problem is that most courses teach what is wrong.
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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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Any two people have different ideas of what is important.
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Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.
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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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Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.
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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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The questions are more important than the answers.
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