Kaizen Mindset Continuous improvement as an inner need and a habit – like breathing.   Continuous improvement mindset is a deep-seated, often unconscious, desire or inner need that drives relentless search for improvement opportunities and related actions. Everything can and should be improved ‒ look for improvement opportunities constantly and pursue them proactively. Vadim Kotelnikov Inventor Author Founder If you stop learning, you stop creating history and become history. If you are not getting better, you are getting worse. ~ Vadim Kotelnikov   Kaikaku and Kazen are two parts of the whole, like Yin and Yang. Kaikaku and Kaizen waltz up along a virtuous spiral of continuous improvement.     Kaizen is focused on incremental improvements. Kaikaku is focused on radical improvements. Keep in your beautiful mind though that radically-improved objects tend to return to their original state if a radical improvement (Kaikaku) is not followed with small continuous improvements (Kaizen).   Everything can and should be improved ‒ look for opportunities! ~ Vadim Kotelnikov   6Ws of the Kaizen Wheel Kaizen and Management Kaizen and Innovation Kaizen Implementation 7 Conditions for Kaizen Implementation Kaizen Culture  →  8 Components Suggestion System       Beware of Metaphorical Cemeteries       Good-enoughs are cemeteries of the bests and the continuous improvement mindset. Blames are cemeteries of intrinsic motivation. Giving-ups are cemeteries of breakthroughs and victories.       How to use this information       ① "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." ~ Bruce Lee ② Sleep on this information – your powerful superconscious mind will tell you how to use it when you wake up   Slides   Continuous Improvement Firm   Notes