Why was the Governors Sterling Award (GSA) established?
In the early 1990s, many Florida business and government leaders saw that a renewed emphasis on quality was not longer an option for Florida organizations but a necessity for doing business in an ever expanding, and more demanding, competitive marketplace. Florida’s economy is one of the largest economies in the world. Former Governor Lawton Chiles established the Governor’s Sterling Award in 1991 as a standard of excellence that would help Florida organizations achieve world-class quality and thus become most competitive.
