Breakthrough thinking in total quality management

Every organization seeks better results, such as customer satisfaction, timely products and services, and effective operating systems. However, the process of attaining those results is equally important. Breaking away from conventional approaches, this innovative volume provides professional TQM facilitators and trainers with a framework that lets you focus on only the critical problems and needed purposes, provides the path to obtaining immediate results that do not inhibit the longer-term benefits of building toward larger purposes and achieving "solutions-after-next," breaks down the barriers of rationalism and faith-in-data that can foster antagonistic relations among people.