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Deming Cooperative Puzzle

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1. In place of judgment of people, the aim should be to ________ the system so that everybody will gain.

5. A manager's job is to ______ and counsel, not to judge.

9. Joint responsibility is ________ from divided responsibility.

10. The fourth stage of the Shewhart Cycle for Learning and Improvement.

11. Everybody should have interest and challenge, and ___ in work.

15. Ranking and grading produce ________ scarcity.

16. A manager should be an unceasing _______.

18. The second stage of the Shewhart Cycle for Learning and Improvement.

19. Negative _____________ result in a company being less than the sum of the individual abilities of its people.

21. _________ from data is prediction.

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2. A manager creates _____ .

3. Schools of business have an obligation to prepare students to ____ the transformation, to halt our decline and turn it upward.

4. With shared, or divided, responsibility, ______ is responsible.

6. Forces of destruction create _____ losses to the individual and the company.

7. To adopt a change, or to abandon one, requires ___________.

8. Future costs include ______ suffered by customers.

12. Our schools must preserve and nurture the yearning for ________ that everyone is born with.

13. To reduce time of development, put more effort into the _____ stages.

14. The third stage of the Shewhart Cycle for Learning and Improvement.

17. The first stage of the Shewhart Cycle for Learning and Improvement.

20. There is __ assignable probability to being right or wrong in prediction.

(if you get stuck, see Chapter Six of The New Economics)
The Deming Cooperative Puzzle





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