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The Road to Making the Discoveries and Creating Improvement Masters International (IMI)
By the Douglas S. Warren
In September 1951, I decided to go to war. My brother and a number of friends had enlisted and were already in the Korean War. They were fifteen or sixteen and had lied about their ages to join the 14 th Division that had been called up at the beginning of the Korean War. Aviation had been of interest to me, so I chose the Air Force and in September 1952, I arrived at Kaitue , Korea where I became the crew chief of a fighter-bomber for the commanding officer of our squadron. I had just turned eighteen.
I came from a long line of business people who provided me the experiences of apprenticing with CEOs from the age of twelve. In this way they were encouraging me to pursue a career in business. However, while in the war I felt that politics was the way to make the greatest contribution. I decided that politics was what got us into wars and that it was also the way to get us out of them.
This thinking led to taking correspondence courses in political science while still in Korea and upon my return, I secured a degree in political science and history and then pursued graduate work in law. It also led to involvement in political research and campaigning. In 1955 upon being released form the service I immediately joined Richard Nixon in his efforts to become Vice President under Eisenhower. My goal was to secure political appointments that would eventually lead to President of the Word Bank. At that time I thought this position provided the greatest opportunity to assist developing nations like Korea and prevent war.
After finishing my college education and having held many positions in the Republican, I became very involved in Nixon's campaign for president. As part of this involvement I ran for the U.S. House of Representatives. During this period a very remarkable man became my research assistant. He spoke eleven languages and could read over twenty-one and was very accomplished researcher and historian. At that time he was a translator for the Pentagon. Upon telling him my concerns with world problems and my plan of action, he decided to help me.
Nixon won the Republican primary nomination, as did I, and we were well involved in the general elections. As the campaign continued so did the research. It wasn't long before we found out what most people realize today. The special interest groups dominate the functions of government, causing our political system to function without conscience. The way we decided to prevent this from continuing was for congressman (who controlled the budget) to submit all major approbation bills to their constituents for a vote. This led to producing a campaign button, based on this idea, which simply stated, "I count".
Powerful special interest groups forged an effort to defeat me. That along with the fact that there were 2 to1 registered Democrats in my District brought about my defeat. Nevertheless, Nixon won and I was well on my way to accepting the political appointments I had sought. Our research on solving world problems continued. My research assistant and I formed a pact. He would continue to do research on how to help cure world problems and I would try to implement whatever we discovered.
By the time I was to receive the political appointment I was seeking, and the press conference was called where I was to announce my future plans much was discovered. As I prepared for the conference I looked at the world more objectively than I had ever done before. I could not help but see that the thing that doing good was simply teaching how to improve quality. What Japan was accomplishing in solving their economic problems by installing Total Quality Management (TQM) was dwarfing everything else and bringing about positive changes. Nobody was doing more good than those Americans who were installing TQM in Japanese companies. They were turning a nation that had very little natural resources, most of their male population killed off, atomic bombs dropped on two of their major industrial cities, despised by the western world, and being known for their poor quality into one of the leading economic powers and political forces in the world. Even more startling was the sociological benefits that were occurring. They were producing the foremost educational system, the lowest divorce rate along with the lowest drug abuse and crime rate. All due in large part some determined and highly committed quality consultants.
It was 1969 When I entered the lobby of the hotel where my press conference was being held I was directed to a seating area where I met J.C. Penny. He was also awaiting a press conference. There I asked for his advice as to how to best improve the world and he told me that the best way to improve the world was to improve business. So I took his advice and instead of accepting a position, I told those attending that my course of action was to pursue a career as a Quality Consultant.
I have been pursuing that career ever since. I first joined a quality development firm that installed improvement programs. Then I formed my own firm that provided business development consulting and developmental research and expanded my operations to other major cities. That was followed by a decision to move near a major university where I could concentrate my time on discovering how the human mind works to produce improvements. I rightly thought if this could be discovered we could greatly accelerate our improvements. Much time has past since I began this pursuit, and it cost me much of my resources. Yet, I began this endeavor with the understanding that this could be the case and tried to prepare for it by putting together a real estate development, which I then sold to support my family of five children. However, right in the middle of my research, documentation, and writing, the party I sold my real estate interest to had a misfortune and went bankrupt forcing them to return my interest. Because they had placed a substantial mortgage on the property a great deal of reorganization followed where I was not able to free my interest to sell it. So, my wife and I were forced to suffer through it while I finished my research. Fortunately, I was able to compile enough information to finally discover how the mind basically works to produce improvements.
At that point I had to mortgage my home twice to keep going through the process of conducting case studies, getting my findings published in the form of a textbook, creating Perpetual Improvement a streamlined Total Quality Management (TQM) system for conveying my discoveries to people through organizations, and establishing a quality institute to instruct, certify, and support leadership coaches in the implementation of this brand new quality initiative.
I then formed Improvement Masters International (IMI) as the operating company. IMI has the vision of establishing 1,500 Certified IMI Coaches throughout the United States and several thousand throughout the world. This professional consulting position provides the opportunity to bring about highly significant improvements in our society. (Click on Coaches tab at top of Home page to discover more about this opportunity.)
I am now turning seventy four years old. This has been a long and sometimes very difficult journey. Yet, it has been a good one, a successful one. I consider myself very fortunate to have discover these breakthrough understandings in how the human mind wirks to make improvements. It has enabled me to accomplish more in the past ten years in every aspect of my life than I did in the previous sixty-three years. I expect to accomplish more in the next year than I did in the last five years. Those of you who become involved in IMI can look forward to that same achievement if not greater.
Being an IMI Coach involves teaching highly important principles that not only produce greater productivity and quality but a higher sense of morality. They also teach principles that greatly increase happiness.
During my forty one years as a quality consultant which involved fifteen years of research on increasing improvements I have written a number of books and programs that give instruction on increasing personal and organization improvements. I feel all of these works are important as far as advancing human life. However, there are five that have highly significant importance. They are titled Awakening (Short Motivation Book), Mind Over Time (Textbook) and Winds of Freedom Historical Romantic Novel), Roots of the Constitution (History Book), and The End of War (Soon to be available ,which is an Instruction Book on Ending War by Successfully Building Economies).
These books contain information that will greatly improve all aspects of your life and will further peace throughout the world. Of these Mind Over Time a textbook on how the human mind works to produce quality, provide happiness, and fulfill our five hopes of being respected, joyful, loved, wise, and free is the most important.
Reading Winds of Freedom and Roots of the Constitution will give you important understandings of why we are as we are now and an ideas of how we can become. They convey why we need to be free, how we gained the freedom we enjoy, and what we need to do to help the people of other nations be free. The reading of these books will give the reader a wonderful perspective of what freedom is all about and the price we have paid for it and what we each can do to increase it.
The Winds of Freedom, a historical romance novel, presents many wonderful ideas and principles; in the context of what I believe is a truly beautiful story. It also provides a comparative history of the culture of northern Europe and native America . It uplifts our visions as to what is possible for all of us.
This novel takes place in the years around 1790's right after the signing of the Constitution of the United States of American. It presents an overall image of our great capabilities and moves us toward becoming our best selves. I have also written the lyrics and music of songs that go with the novel. The sheet music for these songs, along with a CD, will be available through this website in the near future. I believe these songs bring to it a great dimension. They give to the reader and listener a perspective and feeling that cannot be conveyed without relevant lyrics and music. A musical stage production of the novel is also underway as is the screenplay.
My professional life today is mostly focused on presenting and conducting interviews. I am also continuing my research that is greatly aided by IMI and its Coaches and their Clients who provide a great deal of knowledge, experience, and in-depth information. My major research topiccontinues to be how the mind works to produce improvements, gain happiness, fulfill our primary hopes, build faith, and remove fear so our ability to increase our awareness continues to grow.
Beyond my speaking engagements and research, I am also involved in establishing national and local quality initiatives that apply IMI to entire communities and nations. And, I am writing a book on that subject and working on the two other history books one going back to 449 AD which was the beginning of England and the other going back to about 50 AD which was the time the people of northern Europe became known as Enges.
At this point I hope you are considering reading one of my books. As you do my best wish for you is that it will open your mind to your finest thoughts. As it does I encourage you to commit to their realization regardless of whether you believe they are possible. Be assured that the tremendous capacities you have for improvement will immediately go to work for you to make those visions real. As this takes place let each related improvement receive your gratitude. Thereby you will ever increase your happiness. Then let the hopes that this happiness nourishes give you the faith that will overcome all obstacles on your path to realizing all of your finest thoughts. By doing this you will be consistently motivate to better yourself and make the contributions you are capable of making in your quest to improve all that you will.
One thing I know. We are all far more capable than we think. Even our finest visions of our capability fall short of just how much we can do to make our own lives and the lives of others more productive and happier . I believe as well that we can fully employ our present capability, even that we can add to it. Such greater dimensions are seen by many as impossible. Nevertheless, greater things than we have yet imagined are in the realm of reality for all of us. In Winds of Freedom , a novel I wrote I examine just a few of these.
There is one thing that you can always count on, and that is that there always remains knew levels of awareness with respect to all things. If that were not so we would run out of improvements eliminating the possibility of happiness.
Upon forming the Improvement Masters International my commitment to you is that I will remain committed to support those that help in this effort in any way I can.