logo for Tshirt…please advice

Felipe:Sounds like your boss is well measing, but T-shirts
with the names of quality initiatives printed on
them have a way of back-firing. More effort is
devoted to the T-shirts (and slogans on the wall),
than on the quality initiative itself. Printing up
T-shirts with catchy slogans is the kiss of death.
I still have my “Zero Defects Day” T-shirt.
Unfortunately, the T-shirt lasted much longer than
our efforts to implement Phil Crosby’s theories
about reaching zero defects.Then there was our management’s improvement
initiative which they called “Find It, Fix It”.
That didn’t last last too long either – being
outlived by the T-shirt with that catchy phrase
proudly emblazoned on it. Soon that slogan and
T-shirt became the butt of rude jokes – I will leave
it to your immagination what some of the company
wags addded to “Find It, Fix It,…”Giving away nice, high-quality jackets with the
company logo on them is one thing. Handing out
T-shirts with something like “We Are Lean” on them
is an entirly different matter. The workforce has a
way of seeing through these motivational efforts
easily – concluding that management is once again
trying to manipulate them. All management gets is
an unintended consequence.T-shirts? No. Not unless you want to make a joke of
what it is you are trying to accomplish.Felipe, that’s my advice – based on observing the
T-shirt slogan approach several times. Sorry that I
can’t support your boss’s thinki

The previous posts are right on the money. Unfortunately, it probably won’t be easy to explain this to your management. Most managers think these little slogans help drive home the point and somehow convince people that management is committed to whatever the case may be. It has always been my experience that these slogans are more destructive than beneficial. Especially when management continues to quite visibly not practice what they preach.
Good luck, I’m sure you’ll need it.

 Ah ha! this is something different.  I like the Deming quote but in the event that it might get you in trouble with the copyright folks, I’d offer up my favorite African proverb:
Ignorance won’t kill you but it will make you sweat a lot.

I’m happy that you feel the management at your organization believes and practices what it preaches. Unfortunately, the vast majority of us aren’t employed by such companies.
The fact remains, lip services by management simply doesn’t cut the mustard and often just adds to increased frustration and resentment on the part of the workforce. Personally, I’d be happier if management would either just be honest or keep quiet.

I agree with the naysayers, but they must have skipped QFD class, because they are answering a question you didn’t ask.
I would canvass my company and ask for lists of topics that can be conveyed graphically.  Perhaps even have a contest!  Time is short, so be careful to limit the involvement.  Pick something that you actually plan to do, such as reduce inventory or cycle time.  Perhaps your management will commit to a target that they can report on at next year’s gathering – to show their commitment.
I once toured a company where the host’s Six Sigma project was to get the Purchasing Manager to use only approved suppliers.  Pretty lame.

Perhaps you should have a logo shirt titled “I whine”

Here are some that were posted earlier this year……
“Eliminate slogans, exhortations and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships as the cause of most low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force.”
-Dr. W. Edwards Deming
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” –Aristotle
“You can learn something from everyone.”
-Physics Nobelist Richard Feynman
“In matters of scientific investigation the method that should be employed is think, plan, calculate, experiment and first, last, and foremost, think. The method most often employed is wonder, guess, putter, theoize, guess again, and above all avoid calculation.”
-A.G. Webster 1910
“I don’t mind lying, but I can’t stand inaccuracy.” – Samuel Butler
“It’s better to be approximately right than exactly wrong.” – Can’t remember author on this one
The insult
“There’s lies, damned lies, and statistics.” -Twain and others
The response
“Only the truly educated can be moved to tears by statistics.” G.B. Shaw
“Ignorance won’t kill you but it will make you sweat a lot.” -African Proverb
“We trained hard-but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.” – Petronius; 70 A.D.
“There are no uninteresting problems. There are just disinterested people.”
-John Bailar Jr.
“When attacking a problem the good scientist will utilize anything that suggests itself as a weapon.” – George Kaplan
“There is nothing more tragic than the spectacle of a beautiful theory murdered by a brutal gang of facts.” – Don’t know this author
“Every now and then a fool must, by chance, be right.” – Don’t know this author
“They don’t pay me to pitch. They pay me to win.”
A lecturer once observed that in manufacturing engineering “One should always be on the lookout for tight tolerances, loosely enforced”.
It appealed to my cynical British sense of humour
The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen more and talk less
Zeno of Citium (c. 300 B.C.)
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life.
 
Thinkers prepare the revolution bandits carry it out
Mariano Azuela
Nonviolent revolution is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in peaceful transfer of power.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Always design a thing by considering it in its larger context
Eliel Saarinen
TOF, accept this and move on..