Many people in management are being paid to produce waste. - W. Edwards Deming - Quotesmemo.com

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W. Edwards Deming

Many people in management are being paid to produce waste.

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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 the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.

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Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.

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It's not enough to do your best; you must know what to do & then do your best.

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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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Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.

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