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Dr Deming’s aphorisms

  • 95% of performance is governed by the system
  • Appraisals and performance management are futile
  • Beware of hacks
  • By what method?
  • Eliminate numerical goals for management
  • Experience is not the same as knowledge
  • Inspection is too late
  • Management by the numbers is a fallacy
  • Management has walked off the job
  • Management is prediction
  • Management is the biggest problem
  • Management spends time unwisely
  • Modern management is a prison
  • People need joy in work
  • Pleasant dreams
  • Regulation as waste
  • The ‘profession’ of management is a hoax
  • Without theory there is no learning

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