A Bad System Will Beat A Good

Nobody Should Try To Use Data Unless He Has Collected Data.

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.

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.

Eliminate Slogans, Exhortations, And Targets For The Work Force Asking For Zero Defects And New Levels Of Productivity. Such Exhortations Only Create Adversarial Relationships, As The Bulk Of The Causes Of Low Quality And Low Productivity Belong To The System And Thus Lie Beyond The Power Of The Work Force

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