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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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The transformation will come from leadership.
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We are here to make another world.
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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.
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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.
W. Edwards Deming
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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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.
W. Edwards Deming
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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There is very little evidence that we give a hoot about profit.
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I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan - but they don't know what to copy!
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You can expect what you inspect.
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...the most important things we need to manage can't be measured.
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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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It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone.
W. Edwards Deming
If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. Edwards Deming
Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.
W. Edwards Deming
New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction.
W. Edwards Deming
The problem is that most courses teach what is wrong.
W. Edwards Deming
The aim should be to work on the method of management.
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