The Quality Curmudgeon Lives!

The Quality Curmudgeon has been resurrected. As you may know, I wrote a column in Quality Digest for more than 20 years when I served as editor and later as publisher. When I left the magazine in 2006 to devote myself to my growing family and my own business (Paton Professional), my writing slowly tapered off.

The good folks at Quality Digest have been after me for some time now to resurrect my column in print and as a video commentary for their weekly news show, Quality Digest Live. I hope to begin that in 2012.

As part of bringing the Quality Curmudgeon back to Quality Digest, I have decided to bring back this blog, where I hope share not just my musings about the state of quality today but also helpful tips, techniques, links, resources, and more.

I welcome your feedback and contributions to this site. Please don’t be shy about telling me where I went wrong or where I should devote more attention. I hope you’ll share your news, information, tools, tips, links, and resources too.

Finally, a site like this is of no use if no one visits it. Please share the content you find here using the share icons you’ll find on the posts. You’ll be able to post from here directly to Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. You’ll also be able to print posts and e-mail them to friends and colleagues.

I look forward to blogging and writing about quality again, and I especially look forward to hearing from you.