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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

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You should not ask questions without knowledge.

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Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That's inflation.

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In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.

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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.

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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: October 14th, 1900

Died: December 20th, 1993

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