How to Be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life, Work & Everything: 44 1/2 Steps to Lasting Underachievement

Chapter Sixteen. Don’t practice continuous improvement

Quote to avoid

	“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.”
	--Winnie the Pooh

Another way of describing what we’ve covered in the last few steps is Kaizen. Please have nothing to do with this funny Japanese word which roughly translates as “continuous improvement.” The practice of Kaizen is responsible for the business revolution that took place in Japan after the war. Kaizen transformed the Japanese economy and made it the envy of the rest of the ...