What motivates you to show up for work? Is there more waiting for you at the end of a 40-hour workweek than a paycheck? Are you capable of a potentially big contribution that you can’t seem to get off the ground? In Noble Purpose, author and team-building expert Barry Heermann reveals the secrets of creating extraordinary workplaces by enlivening them with meaning and purpose.

"Noble Purpose offers a powerful, passionate journey into the truth of ourselves. Here are masterful techniques for rediscovering the highest calling for the rest of our lives."
— Jean Houston, Ph.D., author of Jump Time

"People brave enough to try the exercises offered here will find that they indeed ignite ‘extraordinary passion in life and work.’"
— David Steindl-Rast, author of A Listening Heart

"Noble Purpose is a remarkably clear and practical guide to revealing the Spirit in your work."
— Richard Rohr, O.F.M. Center for Action and Contemplation

"Barry Heermann offers a compassionate and hands-on guide to help us approach our lives and our work from a place of being called and not just driven."
— Gregg Levoy, author of Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life

"This is a book with a great deal of heart and insight, and well worth reading."
— Peter Block, Author of Flawless Consulting and Stewardship

Noble Purpose is a must read for anyone who wants to learn to embrace work with passion rather than laying low until retirement. The principles described in Noble Purpose are tried and true, based on solid research and the wisdom of the ages. The rest is up to you.

Many of today's commonly imposed management system standards by purchasers -- ISO 9001:2000, ISO/TS 16949, AS9100, TL 9000 and others -- are now based on a process approach. But at least 10 percent of all auditors employed by third-party certification bodies around the world, and possibly many more, may not be able to make the transition, according to some very prominent experts. In some sectors, such as automotive, the percentage of auditors that are not able to make the grade is likely to be even greater. Working with clients like The Boeing Company, DaimlerChrysler Corporation and General Motors Corporation, Alan J. Peterson is able to cut through the misinformation and present the authoritative implementation guide on the process approach. With Jump Start Your Process Approach, your organization can avoid systemwide inefficiencies and the resulting poor return on investment. You will learn how to break the "checklist" mentality, how to audit the "human" side of quality, how to identify key processes and how to measure the cost of quality in a step-by-step approach that shows you how to focus your critical processes on the customer.

There has been no true breakthrough in the discipline of quality since 1934. There have only been fads and what Dr. Stanley Marash calls programmes du jour. Each has merit but too often companies get caught up in the more superficial aspects of these programs - choosing smoke and mirrors over real opportunities for process improvement. As CEO of one of the largest management system training and consulting firms in North America, Dr. Marash draws on more than 40 years of experience working with some of the largest corporations in the United States, Europe and Asia to cut through the hype surrounding such well known quality techniques as Six Sigma, Lean, ISO 9001:2000, Baldridge and others. Fusion Management can help your organization achieve true performance breakthroughs by unlocking the best quality secrets of the past century. With Fusion Management you will: Understand why your management system initiatives are wasteful or duplicative, learn why past management initiatives failed, gain knowledge to avoid future failures and become skilled in applying the best modern management approaches to your business to achieve quantifiable business results.

This is the one resource that you should not be without if you are implementing ISO 9001:2000, contemplating third-party certification/registration for your organization or simply trying to learn more about the global quality management system phenomenon that is revolutionizing the way companies do business. Book is in Adobe PDF format.

In addition, the included Bonus CD-ROM features exclusive transition tips and guidance from each of QSU Publishing's Big Ten registrars of North America along with the verbatim text of ISO 9001:2000, ISO 9000:2000 and ISO 9004:2000. The cost of the standards alone if purchased separately is $120 - more than the cost of this CD-ROM.
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Ford Motor Company has saved millions of dollars since becoming the first automaker to certify all of its manufacturing facilities worldwide to the ISO 14001 international standard on Environmental Management Systems in 1998.

Ford & ISO 14001 chronicles the successful strategy developed by the automaker to achieve compliance in more than 140 manufacturing sites worldwide, while maintaining a focus on bottom-line lessons that can be applied to companies of any size. Includes dozens of sample documents.

Having been called the best ISO 14001 implementation guide on the market by leading experts, Ford & ISO 14001 is designed to enhance efforts in training, implementation and tracking performance related to an ISO 14001-based Environmental Management System no matter what the company size or industry. It includes an entire sample EMS manual and dozens of system documents that users are free to adapt in their own company, potentially saving thousands of dollars and countless hours of development time.
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The ISO 9000 quality management system is the worldwide standard for improved product quality and customer satisfaction through improved business processes. The Big Three automakers, NASA and thousands of other organizations have developed ISO 9000 systems and received ISO 9000 accreditation. Yet, most companies are at a loss as to how to make the most of their ISO 9000 systems because there are no practical guides to maximizing them - until now. Written by a renowned ISO 9000 trainer and consultant, this is the first and only comprehensive guide to achieving tangible bottom-line results with ISO 9000. Readers get detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to put ISO 9000 quality standards to work at every organizational level for increased profits and market share.
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Get the Inside Scoop on ISO 9000 Costs and Benefits!

ISO 9000 Survey '99 provides comprehensive data and analysis of US and Canadian registered companies. It is the ultimate resource for professionals interested in the state of ISO 9000 registration today and includes a Bonus CD-ROM that allows customized survey findings based on industry, standard or even a specific registrar.

Among the findings contained in ISO 9000 Survey '99 is that the costs associated with ISO 9000 registration in the United States and Canada have declined significantly since 1993 while registered companies in the two North American countries report higher overall savings-to-costs ratios.

Conducted by premiere industry journal Quality Systems Update and Plexus Corporation, the third major survey of North American certificate holders since 1993 also finds that about 14 percent of US and Canadian respondents planned to seek ISO 14001 registration in the 18-month period following the survey.
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