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Break the Cycle

Deming Institute

I offer these comments as feedback on efforts to apply improvement principles, including the Toyota Production System, to turnaround situations. Such thinking embodies the “production viewed as a system” advice that W. Only with expansion of the system, in time and/or in space, could there be doubt as once unknowns become known.

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It’s Time to Rethink Continuous Improvement

First Friday Book Synopsis

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

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