Comments on: A Post About Kaizen in Which I Get Preachy, or, There -is- a “Try”

By: Casey Allen

Casey Allen — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:44:49 +0000

you never make sense.

By: Scott Bellware

Scott Bellware — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:16:55 +0000

Dave,

If people find learning fun, then they can also become distracted from it. In my experience, learning isn’t the driver of improvement – it’s in-service to improvement but not the driver.

I find critical thinking a much more significant enabler of improvement than just an enjoyment of learning, or passion.

By: David Laribee

David Laribee — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:29:57 +0000

I find that the learning part is both key and fun. You can get addicted to it: learning about problems, learning about better ways of doing things, learning about what the other people on your team think are the problems, etc. I think learning is at the heart of kaizen.

If people find learning fun, a) kaizen will emerge and b) folk’s passion will create a fun, productive working environment.

By: Angel

Angel — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:17:36 +0000

Great post. I love the concept of Kaizen. I came across the word a few months ago while reading a book by Alan Webber, Rules of Thumb. It’s weird how you hear a word for the first time, then it starts coming up all over the place. I spoke to someone recently who mentioned kaizen. Then just last week, Mike was wearing a shirt from his former employer. Right under the company’s logo, kaizen was in big bold print.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:38:36 +0000

I like it – I was reading the Practical Programmer as few weeks back and that has the broken window theory in it. My wife liked the idea and had noticed that since we spilt red wine on the carpet no-one takes their shoes off any more! It’s a universal truth …