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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
W.E. Deming
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The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.
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3% of the problems have figures, 97% of the problems do not.
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We are here to learn, to make a difference and to have fun.
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Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Judging people does not help them.
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...the most important things we need to manage can't be measured.
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The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.
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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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