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It’s Time to Rethink Continuous Improvement

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Japanese term for continuous improvement is kaizen (??) Years ago, Jon Katzenbach told me that the greatest challenge that change agents face is changing their ideas about change.

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The Failure of “The Livonia Philosophy” at my GM Plant

Deming Institute

General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. That sounds very much like the Toyota Production System and Lean management. Less than a year later, a new CEO came in from the outside and disbanded the internal Lean program.

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