W. Edwards Deming ✓

(1900–1993) university teacher United States

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[Wikidata] American professor, author, and consultant (1900-1993)... | [Wikipedia] William Edwards Deming was an American business theorist, composer, economist, industrial engineer, management consultant, statistician, and writer. Educated initially as an electrical engineer and later specializing in mathematical physics, he helped develop the sampling techniques still used by th

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• A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system. Aim
• 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… Badgering
• The most important measures are both unknown and unknowable. Both
• A bad system will beat a good person every time. Bad
• You can not hear what you do not understand. Hear
• We are here to make another world. Another World
• Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it. Free
• ...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… Achieve
• Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of all… All
• Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality. Allocation
• You can not define being exactly on time. Define
• Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse. Causes
• Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options. Aim
• A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?. Appointed
• Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things. Doe
• Quality is pride of workmanship. Inspirational
• The emphasis should be on why we do a job. Business Success
• The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs. Better
• The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. American
• Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures. Fear
• Any manager can do well in an expanding market. Any
• Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous! Accountability
• Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer. Customer
• When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering. Inspirational
• Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives. Eliminate

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