Dr Deming Quotes

transformation begins with the individual” Dr William Edwards Deming The New Economics - 1993

In God we trust; all others bring data. —Dr. W. Edwards Deming

anyone who has done any teaching or coaching knows that one's mastery of a subject deepens considerably in trying to explain it.

As Dr. W. Edwards Deming is famously paraphrased, “Learning is not compulsory...neither is survival.

creating

For most of my life, I’ve pursued what the famed business expert Dr. W. Edwards Deming calls profound knowledge. To me, profound knowledge is any simple distinction, strategy, belief, skill, or tool that, the minute we understand it, we can apply it to make immediate increases in the quality of our lives.

Dr. W. Edwards Deming said, “Management by walking around is hardly ever effective.” The reason being that someone in management, walking around, typically has little idea about what questions to ask, and usually does not pause long enough at any spot to get the right answer. Dr. Deming also stated quite clearly, “Most problems (85% to 95%) are system (process) problems, not people problems.

Quality genius Dr. W. Edwards Deming observed that the most important things often cannot be measured, e.g., love or beauty.

Corrective action and validation form one of the key parts of the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle, from Dr. W. Edwards Deming.¶¶ •Plan: the conceptualization of new ideas and actions to rectify or improve a situation. •Do: the substantiation of those ideas in action. •Study: the deliberate and rigorous assessment of what had happened versus what was expected and an attempt to explain causally the reasons for those inaccuracies. •Act: the new behaviors informed by what was discovered during study; the validation and correction part of the feedback loop.