151 Quick Ideas to Inspire Your Staff

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A Better Way to Think, Feel, and Act

Kaizen is the Japanese word for the philosophy of daily incremental improvement—the practice of each day finding small improvements that can add up to long-term quantum leaps for improved quality, productivity, processes, and so forth. For this assignment we look for a quantum leap in the way you think, feel, and act.

When you listen to businesspeople discuss what is going on with their jobs, their companies, or their leadership, you’ll almost always hear them talking about their activities. Why do we constantly bat around this talk about our activities? Experts tell us it is largely because it gives us good feelings to know we have been busy, and therefore we think and feel we are being productive.