The Digestible Deming

The Digestible Deming

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The Last Time

Leveraging Variation

Perverse Incentives

Beware of Common Sense

Tampering

Theory and Prediction

When to Mass-Inspect?

How Far Have We Gone?

I Have Done My Best

Cooperation and Standardization

The First Step

The Shewhart Cycle

Enlarging a Committee

Control Charts

Chain Reaction

Things You Can Stop Doing To Improve

The Taguchi Loss Function

Obstacles 13-16

Obstacles 9-12

Obstacles 5-8

Obstacles: 1-4

The Deadly Diseases

Support of Top Management is Not Sufficient

Enumerative Versus Analytic Studies

Leadership

Lessons of the Funnel

Constancy of Purpose

Management by Objective

The Customer Generates Nothing

The Parable of the Red Beads

Overjustification

How Are We Doing?

On Their Honour, It Paid

Quality

Salaries Over Commissions

Job Descriptions

The Parts Wouldn't Fit

Competition, Cooperation

Taking Only the Top Percent

Extrinsic Motivation

Managing the Unknown and Unknowable

Variation in People

Sources of Power

Rewarding the Weatherman

What is My Job?

Operational Definitions

Theory of Knowledge

Knowledge of Psychology

Variation

Aim of the System

Drive Out Fear

Management by Results

Who's to Blame?

What Must Management Do?

On Tyranny

The Digestible Deming

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