Managing for Quality: How to Implement and Manage a Business Strategy of Continuous Improvement

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Leslie L. Kossoff, world renowned speaker, author and confidential advisor to executives and entrepreneurs has brought her rare blend of deeply rooted authority, cutting-edge insights and straightforward techniques to give organizations around the world the proven path for bringing Quality dramatically and consistently to life – making continuous improvement your way of doing business.

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Overview

Leslie L. Kossoff, world renowned speaker, author and confidential advisor to executives and entrepreneurs has brought her rare blend of deeply rooted authority, cutting-edge insights and straightforward techniques to give organizations around the world the proven path for bringing Quality dramatically and consistently to life – making continuous improvement your way of doing business.

With chapters ranging from "Why Quality" and "Making Quality Work" to "How You Know When Things Are Going Wrong" and "Troubleshooting Your Initiative," Leslie provides you with a comprehensive, self-directed and self-managed, low cost strategy and execution system leading to high profits, productivity and innovation.

Whether you're at the start of your implementation process - or well into it and trying to figure out what went wrong - Leslie, with her expertise implementing and turning around these initiatives in the US, UK, Europe and Japan, will make sure you get your initiative on track. And that it stays there.
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Editorial Reviews

Don Antenore
The how-to book for business survival and success in the 21st century. It clearly guides the way, step-by-step, through a continuous improvement process that works.
Leon D. Rizio
Managing for Quality is inspiring, practical and highly useful – exactly what it takes to identify those crucial success factors and put them to work in any organization.
W. Edwards Deming
She is, quite simply, one of the best at implementation.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780963072436
  • Publisher: Kossoff Management Consulting
  • Publication date: 10/1/1998
  • Edition description: REVISED
  • Edition number: 3
  • Pages: 160

Meet the Author

Internationally renowned writer, speaker and confidential advisor to executives and entrepreneurs worldwide, Leslie L. Kossoff has been cited by About.com as “one of the most intelligent and perceptive voices on executive and managerial leadership today.”

For over 20 years, as Founder and Principal of The Kossoff Group – and now as Founder and CEO of Leadership Quantified – she has assisted clients ranging from Fortune 50s to start-ups, small and mid-sized firms in a broad range of industries and sectors in the United States, Japan and Europe. Some of her clients included Fidelity Investments, Sony, TRW, Kraft Foods, Baxter Healthcare, the UK National Health Service, Seiko/Epson, 3M, Infonet and GM/Hughes.

Leslie is the award-winning author of Executive Thinking: The Dream, The Vision, The Mission Achieved and has written over 100 articles appearing in journals such as the FT, IBD and CEO magazine. She also enjoys an outstanding reputation as an invited speaker at professional and educational conferences around the world.

A former executive in the aerospace/defense and pharmaceutical industries, Leslie is the founder and former Director of the Institute for Quality and Productivity Improvement at California State University, Long Beach, a founding Board member of the Women’s Leadership Center at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University and currently sits on the Boards of the Enterprise Trust, Cordville Capital, ArtiWit Collective Intelligence and the Russia Research Network.

She is a member of the Reform Club (London) and a Freeman of the City of London (UK).
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