Anticlue

Deming's 7 deadly diseases

The following are Deming's 7 deadly diseases:

1. Lack of constancy of purpose in planning product and service that will have a market, keep the company in business, and provide jobs.
2. Emphasis on short-term profits: short-term thinking (just the opposite of constancy of purpose to stay in business), fed by fear of unfriendly takeover and by push from bankers and owners for dividends.
3. Evaluation of performance, merit rating, or annual review.
4. Mobility of Management: job hopping
5. Management by use only of visible figures, with little or not consideration of figures that are unknown or unknowable.
6. Excessive Medical Costs
7. Excessive cost of liability, swelled by lawyers who work on contingency