A parent asked me today, "How do you get your children to pray in church?" My response? "Pray at home. "
I believe that management should focus on two particular areas. One is Gemba (shop floor) and the other is customer (not the shareholder).
The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.
It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will just be one more variation that is occasionally used and mostly ignored. One must standardize, and thus stabilize the process, before continuous improvement can be made.
The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved.
Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes.
Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money.
So Ayurveda is a bunch of techniques and theories and practices that have been accumulated over many centuries in a way that we think about Ayurveda. But the Ayurvidya is the Shakti that has inspired the development of Ayurveda. It's inspiring the spread of Ayurveda into many other countries. And has to posses an individual before that individual can actually act as a vehicle for healing energy to move into the world.
How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses?
And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.