Kaizen works by reducing any program of change to such small steps that you cannot imagine failure.

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This book explains how the Japanese continuous-improvement philosophy of Kaizen can be applied to personal and business matters.

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Since its inception, the site has been in the state of kaizen.

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Strict union job classifications stifle innovation, says William Schwartz, a business consultant who has run workshops at Pella Corp. on kaizen, the Japanese art of continual improvement.

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Well, if you know me at all by now, you know the answer comes from another book, in this case One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way.

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Thanks to their disciplined, well-educated workforces, Japanese manufacturers have been able to use the kaizen approach to boost productivity continuously, even as they raise the quality of their goods and reduce costs.

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One of the biggest victims of the change looks like being the famed kaizen (step-by-step improvement) system that was pioneered by Toyota in the 1970s and has been treated as gospel by manufacturers throughout Japan ever since.

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