Today's post is something I wrote for the KaiNexus blog that was posted yesterday:
I loved this short clip of Bourdain being interviewed on the Charlie Rose program, talking about doing something new and trying to get better every day.
That's Kaizen. That's what the process of creating a culture of continuous improvement is like… learn something new, get started, get better every day. This includes the practice of Kaizen — the behaviors  and habits of staff at all levels. For example, getting better at not giving answers and solutions to your employees. Being less awful at forgetting to define a problem and jumping to a solution. “Sucking less” (as Bourdain puts it) at blaming people, things like that.
Click below to see the clip and to read my post.
If Lean or Kaizen are new to you, did you ever expect you'd be learning this and doing this? What are you doing to continually get better at it? Do you have setbacks and missteps along the way?
Continually getting better at continually improving… or trying to…
Tweet of the Day:
Be sure to click the image link in the tweet for a good laugh… an example of a suggestion / improvement process that has plenty of room for improvement.
@MarkGraban Suggestion boxes are not so great to begin with but you can make them even less useful http://t.co/yqfHPeo4vW
— John Hunter (@curiouscat_com) December 18, 2014
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