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“Control your own Destiny or somebody else will”
― Jack Welch, Jack: Straight from the Gut

“When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.”
― Karen Martin, The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence

“Kaizen should be done when times are good or when the company is profitable, since your efforts to streamline and make improvements when the company is poor are limited to reduction in staff. Even if you try to go lean and cut out the fat to improve business performance, when your business is in a very difficult position financially there is no fat to be cut. If you are cutting out muscle, which you need, then you cannot say that your efforts to become lean are succeeding.The most important thing about doing kaizen is to do kaizen when times are good, the economy is strong, and the company is profitable”
― Taiichi Ohno

“Chaos is the enemy of any organization the strives to be outstanding.”
― Karen Martin, The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence

“An effective method often deceives us into thinking that it is the only effective one, or the most effective.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you want engagement, you must engage.”
― Karen Martin, The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence

“Chaos is NOT a condition of doing business.”
― Karen Martin, The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence

“I am the story teller, charged with the secrets of this world and beyond. I am the calm in the storm, the quiet in the quake and the stillness in the dark. I am the old lady with the pot of water when you are dying of thirst. I am the sapling after the forest fire and the child who survives after pestilence. For those who will listen, hear you the first secret. Love is the sea in which all of nature exists and the greatest love of all is that which is spilled for another.”
― Kaizen Kobe

“We’re cutting out muscle tissue Gary, not fat.”
― James Franz, Trenches - A Lean Transformation Novel

“Všechny změny, dokonce i ty pozitivní, vedou k obavám. Pokusy dosáhnout cíle radikálními nebo revolučními prostředky často selhávají, protože zvyšují strach. Ale malé postupné kroky kaizen snižují odpověď mozku na strach, stimulují racionální myšlení a kreativní hru.”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“Když budete postupovat malými kroky, tak nepatrnými, že vám budou připadat triviální nebo dokonce směšné, můžete v klidu obeplout všechny překážky, které vás předtím dokázaly porazit.”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“»It is generally not possible simply to maintain a level of process performance. A process will tend to erode no matter what, even if a standard is defined, explained to everyone, and posted. […] Any organized process naturally tends to decline to a chaotic state if we leave it alone. […] A process is either slipping back or being improved.«”
― Mike Rother, Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results

“An improvement is not always worth it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Psychologically speaking, trying to institute massive change all at once is quite difficult for us to process. But, small changes done in a sustainable way are much more easily absorbed.”
― Steve M. Beauchamp

“A great product or service is just the starting point for building a successful startup. It's the ability to continuously improve, innovate, and adapt that truly sets apart the winners.”
― Justin Ho Guo Shun, The Art and Science of Startup