Science has unraveled the mystery of the beginning of the universe and has discovered what the nature of ultimate reality is. Scientific evidence suggests that everything remains connected to everything else and to the nature of ultimate reality forever, from the moment of the Big Bang to the present. Feelings of disconnection lead to all sorts of problems. Western scientists have uncovered scientific evidence of that within us with which the connection may be restored. Eastern wisdom has known this for several thousand years and has developed the yogic processes for strengthening the connection towards what the authors call "Excellence of the Internal". These processes lead to improvements in health and wellness, performance in all walks of life, interpersonal relationships, leadership decisions, discord and violence, and they promote global peace. The authors show that internal excellence must go hand in hand with external excellence and that the scientific framework for external excellence is six sigma. The authors have discovered that six sigma programs fall short of expectations in the absence of an adequate level of internal excellence and that the pursuit of internal excellence itself is a comprehensive six sigma problem. By combining both components of excellence, individuals, organizations, and nations can emerge as their theoretical best.
About the Author: Dr. Pradeep B. Deshpande is Professor Emeritus and a former Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Louisville; Visiting Professor of Management, Gatton College of Business & Economics, University of Kentucky; and President and Chief Executive Officer of Louisville-based Six Sigma and Advanced Controls, Inc. (SAC). Dr. Deshpande was among the first to introduce six sigma training in corporate India, and in engineering and MBA programs here, in Greece, and in India. He is an author or coauthor of six textbooks and over 100 refereed technical papers and presentations. He is a fellow of ISA, a recipient of numerous awards for research and teaching and is listed in Who's Who in the World. Dr. Deshpande has taught at the Indian Institutes of Technology in Kanpur and Madras, the University of Bombay, Department of Chemical Technology, and has spent a year while on sabbatical at India's National Chemical Laboratory in Pune. Dr. James Paul Kowall obtained his PhD in Theoretical Physics at Brown University in 1980. He then served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley for two years before enrolling in medical school at the University of Miami graduating in 1984. He completed his residency in neurology at Stanford University during 1985-88 and served as a postdoctoral fellow there for a year. Jim is also board-certified in internal medicine and sleep disorders medicine. Subsequently, he was in private practice in Coos Bay Oregon until his retirement in 2008.