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How the West Found Baldrige

What do the American West, Six Sigma, cowboy ethics, commerce, and quality improvement have to do with one another? They are all elements of the story of

A Map for Total Performance

No one can deny that there are plenty of quality tools out there to improve performance—of a team, of a process, of a product—but to integrate those tools and
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