STEPHEN GEORGE is a writer and consultant from St. Louis Park, Minnesota. He has consulted with eleven companies that have applied for the Baldrige Award and/or State Quality Awards, five of which have won eight awards, including three Baldrige Awards. He is the author of The Baldrige Quality System, Uncommon Sense, and Total Quality Management: Strategies and Techniques Proven at Today's Most Successful Companiesn all published by Wiley.

CHRIS THOMAS is a professional writer. This is her sixth?textbook for John Wiley?& Sons.

ARNOLD WEIMERSKIRCH is Vice President of Corporate Quality at Honeywell, Inc. and former chairman of the panel of judges for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. He holds BS and MS engineering degrees from the University of Minnesota.

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