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{{a|devil|}}{{quote| | {{a|devil|}}{{quote|“Information is not knowledge.” <br> | ||
“The [[Performance appraisal|merit rating]] nourishes short-term performance, annihilates long-term planning, builds fear, demolishes teamwork, [and] nourishes rivalry and politics. It leaves people bitter, crushed, bruised, battered, desolate, despondent, dejected, feeling inferior, some even depressed, unfit for work for weeks after receipt of rating, unable to comprehend why they are inferior. It is unfair, as it ascribes to the people in a group differences that may be caused totally by the system that they work in.” | |||
:—W. Edwards Deming}}Unfairly remembered mainly for a trite observation about [[data]],<ref>“In God we trust, all others must bring data.”</ref> — we prefer the one above — Mr. Deming was a man before his time. Either that, or we are a people ''after'' his time, since his ideas seem to have been pretty popular at the time — though somewhat out of print now — but we seem, unwisely, to have forgotten them: | :—W. Edwards Deming}}Unfairly remembered mainly for a trite observation about [[data]],<ref>“In God we trust, all others must bring data.”</ref> — we prefer the one above — Mr. Deming was a man before his time. Either that, or we are a people ''after'' his time, since his ideas seem to have been pretty popular at the time — though somewhat out of print now — but we seem, unwisely, to have forgotten them: | ||