W. Edwards Deming Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men, but to remove the causes of failure: to help people to do a better job with less effort.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Leadership, Jobs, Pride

• Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Hard Work, Best Effort, Pits

• For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Zero, Knowledge, Fire

• We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Best Effort, People, Management

• We want best efforts guided by theory.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Best Effort, Want, Management

• It is management's job to direct the efforts of all components toward the aim of the system. The first step is clarification: everyone in the organization must understand the aim of the system, and how to direct his efforts toward it. Everyone must understand the damage and loss to the whole organization from a team that seeks to become a selfish, independent, profit center.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs, Selfish, Team

  "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education". Book by W. Edwards Deming, 1993.

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