If you are going to do kaizen continuouslyyou've got to assume that things are a mess. Too many people just assume that things are all right the way they are. Aren't you guys convinced that the way you're doing things is the right way? That's no way to get anything done. Kaizen is about changing the way things are. If you assume that things are all right the way they are, you can't do kaizen. So change something!

My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

No one has more trouble than the person who claims to have no trouble

If you are going to do TPS you must do it all the way. You also need to change the way you think. You need to change how you look at things.

Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.

Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen

Ask 'why' five times about every matter.