W. Edwards Deming Quotes

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

I'm trying to keep my days very efficient, and I keep my set really tight. Every single corner is active, and everybody gets to thrive in the job that they do. I don't waste people's time.

Teamwork is the best kind of work, really.

The more everyone tries to do their own job, that's when the team fires on all cylinders.

The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.

As the workplace becomes more specialized, from offices to medical centers to factories, teams of people must accomplish their work by collaborating with each other. In my work in filmmaking, we need talented individuals with technical skills, but their abilities to communicate and work with others are just as valuable.

Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.

You're going to have injuries, danger and glory in every sport. What makes football unique is that every person on that team needs to count on everybody else. It's the ultimate team game and you have to depend on your coaches, you have to depend on your support staff, you have to depend on your teammates.

Everyone is a little bit more close-knit and you rely on people a little bit more. The bigger the budget gets, the more everyone toes the line in their department.

Not harder than it should be, no. We're about the business, we're about the work. It's all about the work, always. We have fun and laugh and there're days that are more intense than others, but we're there to make it better. He's always going to try and make it better, I'm always going to try and make it better. So you accept anything, you accept whatever it takes to get it up on the screen and make it worthy.

If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.

Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.

Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.

If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.

I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results.

The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.

A meeting moves at the pace of the slowest mind in the room.

Studies have shown that performance gets worse as group size increases ... If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.

It takes a bee to get the honey out