What's on the other side of the mask?  When you peal back the surface and look underneath, is anything there?

It's sad that almost nothing is done the best it can be.  We continually settle for less than the best from ourselves and from others.

What is Quality?  Why is it important?  How do we get it and give it?  It only has to do with the love of our life...  

When astronauts first went up into orbit, they were amazed at how there were no isolated countries visible---just large land masses without borders.  Lots of water, and large continents---joined in one continuous panorama.

When the astronauts first went way out, far away from the earth---all the way out to the moon---they looked back in amazement at a shining blue gem hanging suspended in the black sky... so very alone, fragile, and small.

Yes, that's us.  Mankind's home.  A beautiful little, blue-green pearl spinning around our sun.  For a long time into humanity's future, that will be our only home.  

It's not my house versus your house...my town versus your town...my country versus your country.  It's all connected.  It's a "system."  My consumption/production---be it use or misuse of earth's resources---is not isolated.  What I do affects you.  It affects the whole earth.  

There's a limit as to how many people the earth can support.  There's only so much room, so much air, so much water, so much food.  "Growth" over "Sustainability" will ultimately hit a brick wall.  It's just biology.  When a population gets too big, it crashes---mainly through starvation.

In centuries past, where humanity consisted largely of isolated tribes in vast wildernesses, our activities/wastes had little impact.  Now we are a big crew crowded onto a small boat.  When we sneeze, the boat gets a cold.  We are at a CRITICAL MASS.  The time that we could put-off hard decisions into the distant future is past, both as countries and as individuals.  

Some of those decisions are intensely personal.  If only to feed our children, we need to think hard about how many children should I conceive?  When your life is over, how many of your progeny will take your place?  Will they have enough food to eat, enough air to breathe, enough water to drink?     

And even if we can---somehow---force the food supply to double and double and double...soon there's no place left for wilderness, for biodiversity, for plain-old elbow room.  Our wastes pile up around us, and we are left to drown in our own toxicities.

We have to think of the Earth, our precious finite home, as a single, Whole (Holistic) System---where everything is connected, and everything affects everything else.  We need to ask critical questions, and be clear on the answers:  What is the AIM of "Holistic Earth"?  What Processes sustain that Aim?  How does what each of us do affect those Processes?  Are our Processes best suited to meeting the Aim?  If not, how can we improve them?

I have to stop thinking only about me, my immediate family, my country/land.  Sure, those things are important and critical for each of us, and must not be neglected.  But life is more than money, gadgets, jobs, procreation, winning-by-beating-up-other-people, having "what's mine," and dying comfortable deaths.

There is, indeed, this little matter of "Significance"---what is the impact of my life?  When all is said and done, all is added up and tallied...what did my life mean???  

What I'm suggesting is this:  the notion of "QUALITY" applies not only to my job, my family, my friends, my religious group, my government---but even to our precious, irreplaceable, blue-green Pearl.

The Astronauts, standing on the surface of the Moon, looking up at the small blue sphere in the black sky of empty space---indeed, did see a Holistic Earth.

That little sphere is ours to preserve and cherish, living and growing in harmony with the many BALANCES of nature's intricate Processes...or ours to crush and destroy while pervesely---at the very same time---smashing our own selves.

It's our choice:  to apply Quality to the entire Earth---or to exist merely in the moment, blind to the future, blind to the true consequences of our actions---living briefly in the passions of petty Selfishness, dominating Fear, and self-destructive Conflict.

To apply Quality, we need to understand what Quality really is---then how to create it: in terms of Principles and Mechanisms.   It's not all that complicated.  Like anything else, it just takes some talent, good knowledge, and lots of practice.

"Principles" focus on the real underpinnings of the best successes:  1) meeting the True Needs of other people,  2) driving-out-Fear, and  3) Constructive Mutualism.  

The "Mechanisms" are practical, doable, efficient ways/techniques of obtaining the following:  1) the best information possible,  2) well-prioritized needs/opportunities, and  3) unleashing the power of Controlled Creativity. 

If humanity's collective God-given, self-aware Intellect and sensitive Heart were freed from Fear, from Destructive Conflict, and Short-Sighted Selfishness---Holistic Earth indeed has a bright and shining future.  

If not, we may quickly find ourselves just another promising Gemstone shattered in the cutting.

In Search of Quality I: Principles and Mechanisms        $49.95

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388 pages long, this extremely well-organized and conversationally-written text breaks down the Quality Management movement to ten central PRINCIPLES and eighteen main MECHANISMS.   Both Theory and Practical Application are extensively addressed and illustrated through many specific, real-life examples.  This book also benefits from many graphical illustrations and figures where key concepts are extracted and crystallized.  Quality Management is taken from the Senior Executive business level, and extended down to the "regular" person working at his/her desk, dealing with a family, working in a volunteer group such as a church congregation, in school situations, and in one's personal life.    The AIM of this book is to describe how understanding and implementing Quality Principles and Mechanisms can make your personal life, family, church group, school-situation, volunteer organization, or job-situation easier, more productive, and more enjoyable.

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QUALITY Art Posters        $19.95 each

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One hundred and forty-nine (13 x 19") Art Posters, beautifully arranged and presented as small and full-screen Thumbnails in the areas of:  AIM, IN SEARCH OF QUALITY, and HOLISTIC EARTH.  All posters tie-into and illustrate key information/concepts from LylePublishing books and other products.  Much key information from In Search of Quality is encapsulated and presented in large size, vivid color schemes, with catching graphics---ready to frame and hang on one's wall as a constant reminder of the struggle to find and produce true Quality in our brief existence here on earth.  [Note that the actual, printed 13 x 19" posters are significantly more colorful, detailed, and sharper than the small and large thumbnails presented on the website.]

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