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Do Not Remove: What a Kaizen Binder Taught Me in Japan

White cover, the word KAIZEN in big orange letters, a photo of cherry blossoms underneath. Inside the front cover, someone had printed a word cloud — IMPROVEMENT, DEMING, PDCA, TOYOTA — and a hand-drawn PDCA with a finger pointing at it.

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White cover, the word KAIZEN in big orange letters, a photo of cherry blossoms underneath.

Inside the front cover, someone had printed a word cloud — IMPROVEMENT, DEMING, PDCA, TOYOTA — and a hand-drawn PDCA with a finger pointing at it.

This was not a binder shoved in a cabinet to satisfy an auditor […] The post Do Not Remove:

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White cover, the word KAIZEN in big orange letters, a photo of cherry blossoms underneath. Inside the front cover, someone had printed a word cloud — IMPROVEMENT, DEMING, PDCA, TOYOTA — and a hand-drawn PDCA with a finger pointing at it. This was not a binder shoved in a cabinet to satisfy an auditor […] The post Do Not Remove:

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On a factory table in Japan, in December 2019, there was a binder.

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