“An example of a system, well optimized, is a good orchestra. The players are not there to play solos as prima donnas, each one trying to catch the ear of the listener. They are there to support each other. Individually they need not be the best players in the country … An orchestra is judged by listeners, not so much by illustrious players, but by the way they work together.”—W. Edwards Deming

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