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Management is prediction.
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
W.E. Deming
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A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.
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...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.
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The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer.
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People need to know how their job contributes.
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You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method.
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To optimize the whole, we must sub-optimize the parts
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He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for improvement of quality expounded in [Out of the Crisis] will suffer delusion. He should know before he starts that he will be able to quantify only a trivial part of the gain.
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We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected.
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It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.
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When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, Figuring out how to think about the problem.
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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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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Don't expect smart people to listen to you without proof.
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Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.
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People learn in different ways: reading, listening, pictures, watching.
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The most important things cannot be measured.
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It's management's job to know.
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People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.
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