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Pleasant dreams

The supposition is prevalent the world over that there would be no problems in production or in service if only our production workers would do their jobs in the way that they were taught. Pleasant dreams.

The workers are handicapped by the system, and the system belongs to management.

Deming 1982 ‘Out of the Crisis’ (First MIT edition 2000 p134)

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