Top 9 John Seddon Quotes

#1. As managers develop the systems approach, they learn to use computers for the things they are good at and to the contrary avoid using computers for things that people are good at. The consequences are fewer computer systems and more control. I

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#2. It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.

Hugh Laurie

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#3. I appreciate the beauty and balm of flowers but I have never enjoyed receiving them because then I have to watch them die, and worse ... throw them away.

Donna Lynn Hope

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#4. The measures themselves are easily distorted to suit reporting purposes.

John Seddon

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#5. Things are not as they seem. They are what they are.

Terry Pratchett

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#6. A writer without reviews is like racing car without an engine - shows lots of potential but it's never going anywhere.

Lillian White

Lillian White

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#7. It is an unquestioned assumption that managers should have and set targets and then create control systems - incentives, performance appraisals, budget reporting and computers to keep track of them all - to ensure the targets are met. In Toyota, these practices simply do not exist. To

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#8. Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Lillian Smith

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#9. I have learned that as soon as you introduce controls on human behavior, you lose the game, particularly when those controls are at odds with the work.

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