The Quest for Ascendant Quality was written for everyone who likes a good action story and, especially, for everyone who would like to see themselves in a good action story. Seeing yourself in The Quest for Ascendant Quality is not hard to do because it’s a story of the fundamental need which animates each of us to seek to improve our quality of life through our innovative and creative effort. It is a story about how human aspiration, strategy, quality, and risk interrelate, in a conceptual system, with which people, and thus civilizations, throughout history, have progressively...