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Show r NEWS Continued from Page 1 "We already have a provisional headquarters in place for Air Force Materiel Command. We will be putting provisional headquarters in place for Air Combat Command and Air Mobility Command right after the first of the year,,, Rice said. "Everyone has a lot of work to do to get ready for the transition." Air Combat Command will project firepower where and when needed, while Air Mobility Command will provide worldwide airlift and tanker support. Other initiatives already under way include streamlining headquarters staffs and eliminating air divisions, as well as a major overhaul of the way Air Force wings operate. While reacting to the need to adapt to the changes .Dec. 6, 1991 in the world, the Air Force has continued to pursue the best principles of modern management as people conduct their daily business. Most of the major commands have been working total quality management into their own operations. Rice said. "As we worked the Air Force's overall TQM program, the chief (of staff) and I felt we should have a single vision statement for the Air Force, for the whole institution." Total quality is a management philosophy designed to involve everyone in an organization in controlling and continuously improving how work is done. It includes a set of principles and procedures that guide tasks ranging from managing daily work to strategic planning. "Each of the commands and organizations under H.litcp 3 our total quality management approach will be developing their own missions and goals and objectives, right down to the lowest level of the organization," Rice said. Many organizations are already applying the key element of TQM empowering people at the lowest level to participate in the process of improving the way work is done, "improving the way we do business." Rice says there will be a complete process that will let all individuals relate their goals and their missions to the overall mission of the Air Force. "It has to start with a vision for the total institution that each of the specific missions and goals can be related to," Rice said. "We also hope that all of this will help instill and sustain a sense of pride in an institution that has the right to call itself the best, the most respected in the world." LVklPeeoEr B Continued from Page 1 artificial eliminates the distinction between tactical and strategic airpower, McPeak said in an October speech in Los Angeles. s Other changes inlong-debate- to be the world's most respected air and space force. We want our friends to admire us, our enemies to fear us. In our hoped-fo- r future, everyone wants to cooperate with us, no one wants to fight us." The vision is the latest of a series of initiatives intended to guide the service through the turbulence and uncertainty facing not only the Air Force, but other military branches as well. The new creed also comes in the wake of recent announcements that the Air Force will combine resources from three major combat commands into two new commands, coupled with other dramatic and sweeping changes taking place Air Force-widPutting Strategic Air Command, Tactical Air Command and Military Airlift Command assets and missions into two new combat commands e. d, back-to-basic- volve reorganizing the Air Force wing, eliminating unnecessary layers of management at all levels, taking a closer look at the manning needs and requirements of Air Force and major command headquarters, and pushing authority and responsibility to the lowest level possible. "I see the restructuring and the vision as complementary pieces, aimed at improving our combat capability and efficiency as an organization," McPeak said. "Restructuring is not a way to improve the processes, it is a way to facilitate improvement in the processes. The vision is meant to inspire peo f ple to improve the processes they're working on." Another important step in making the vision a reality is total quality management. Total quality, a management philosophy on the national and international corporate scene, will be integral to the Air Force's conduct of operations. The Air Force will continue moving into the total quality management environment, McPeak said. That means people will develop a better understanding of the new language of leadership which is associated with total quality management. "In a TQM approach, top leadership has to state the direction it wants to take the organization. Then every member in the organization has to sign up to that. The leadership and everyone else in the organization must have the will to carry it out," he said. day-to-da- y mr mm Military - m "We want to become a total quality Air Force." Total quality management is designed to involve everyone in an organization in continually improving how work is done. For the Air Force, this means looking for smarter ways to do business, centered on quality people doing quality work. Without widespread acceptance of this vision it will remain just that ... "only a vision," he said. "It must be more than that. We must carry this vision through and make it reality. I ask all in the Air Force to read the vision (statement), think about it and help us act on it." McPeak sees achieving a vision as an act of "sheer will, a question of tenacity. Once the entire Air Force commits itself to this vision of our future, it will become a very powerful tool." U2 Civilian Personnel Convenient and Quick Cash!! Cash for personal needs, vacations, etc. UP T $200 INSTANTLY!! 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