: About Me

Mr. MacLean is the founder and President of the Michigan based, directional Quality firm, Q21: 21st Century Quality, LLC. Gary is certified as a Mechanical Inspector, Quality Technician, Quality Auditor, and Quality Engineer by the American Society for Quality and is a Senior member with this organization. He has served on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the Michigan Quality Leadership Award, and the Muskegon County Quality Award boards of examiners. Mr. MacLean received The Golden Quill Award in 1993 for the authoring of the best selling, technical reference text Documenting Quality for ISO 9000 and Other Industry Standards and serves as a publications reviewer for the ASQ's Quality Press. Mr MacLean is also a technical reviewer for the ASQ's Quality Progress magazine and has been appointed to serve as a member of the Editorial Review Board Administrative Committee (ERBAC). He has been trained and is certified through the RAB, as an ISO 9000 Assessor, and is certified in the Plexus training system for QS 9000 / TS16949.

In addition to his professional career accomplishments, Mr MacLean has written two mainstream books; "You Know I Love You," a self help book for the emotionally abused and "I Didn't Know I Wasn't Black," an autobiography of the first 14 years of his life in a racially mixed family.

My passion is ...

My lovely, lovely wife Lisa

I know too much about ...

nothing and too little about everything

My parents always told me ...

well that's nice honey. What did that mean?

My childhood ambition ...

Marry a lovely, lovely woman

My favorite memory ...

Meeting my wife Lisa for the first time

Why I write ...

My head is too full of thoughts, I must get them out of there

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading Helium, watching American Idol, listening to CW music

My first job ...

Preparing shakes and malts at a roadside DQ

My best moment ...

The day I married my lovely, lovely wife Lisa

My inspiration ...

Wouldn't you know it? My wife Lisa. I love her!

Relationships & Family > Love & Relationships What is love?

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One word in our vocabulary says more than all the other words put together; that word is love. How it is said, when and to whom or what, makes the word more beautiful and stronger. One simple four letter word that holds within it the power to change a person's life and to make pain vanish. Where does this word get its strength? What lies behind those four simple letters? Love is so much to all of us. In one form or another we have all experienced love to some degree. The magic we feel springing up inside our chest when we first see that brand new puppy; that's one of the most innocent sens...

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