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The Idea Generator - Quick and Easy Kaizen

3 definitions of Kaizen are: Improvement through changes in the method, Small changes, not big changes Changes within realistic constraints THE IDEA GENERATOR - Quick and Easy Kaizen This book, in all its simplicity, has the power to generate overwhelming positive change wherever its concepts are implemented

Whatever I Do Is Never Good Enough

Sort of the theme story of my life: Whatever I do is never good enough. Not good enough to please my teachers, my parents, my wives, my friends, my business associates.

Bodek Podcast 3

This is the first of four video segments with the "godfather of lean" Norman Bodek, President of PCS Press. In these videos, Norman talks about how he got started with learning about Lean in Japan and how he started to spread these practices in the U.S.

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▼ Fundamental principles of Lean Manufacturing - (New)
▼ How to do Kaizen (New)
▼ Kaikaku
▼ Kaikaku
▼ The Idea Generator - Quick and Easy Kaizen
▼ Kaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking
▼ All You Gotta Do Is Ask
▼ Rebirth of American Industry
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▼ What Makes Lean Work
▼ An Amazing Trip to Japan
▼ The Check List
▼ The Art Of Leadership
▼ Overcoming Resistance
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▼ Bodek Podcast 1
▼ Bodek Podcast 3
▼ Audio Podcast Archive
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How to do Kaizen


Book Description:

In this book is everything we know about Kaizen, an amazing system to empower all employees to make their work easier, more interesting and to become personally responsible to build their own skills and capabilities. We want people to be excited when they get up to go to work. We want to help all managers to know how to lead this process.

Dan O’Malley, VP at Gulfstream, every Wednesday walks his plant floor and asks five to ten of his associates to show him and his leadership team one of their creative ideas. Just look into the face of each employee to see what this means to them! The result: over 40 implemented ideas per employee per year (over 40,000 in 2009,) millions of dollars in cost savings, higher quality and safety and turnover virtually gone. We do hope that every organization will start or expand their Kaizen system.

Praise for the Book

“I love this book and can’t wait for it to come out. He brought Lean to America and continues to bring golden ideas to America through his contacts in Japan. This is truly a breakthrough idea!”
– Steven Hatch, Lean Specialist

“This a timely book on a topic of great importance in these difficult times. The concepts in it will not only help you survive the recession, but emerge from it stronger. If you implement a high-performing idea system, like those described in the book, it will raise your organizations performance to a new level, one that would have been impossible to reach before. I have always admired both of the authors of this book because they have always been just enough ahead of their time to be agents of significant positive change.”
- Alan G. Robinson, Professor, University of Massachusetts and co-author of Ideas Are Free

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Train the Trainer

In the next few months, Norman will be running Quick and Easy Kaizen train the trainer events. He wants to certify a small group of experts to teach and lead their organizations in this very powerful methodology. If interested please contact us at bodek@pcspress.com

"In his training and coaching, Norman not only teaches you Quick and Easy Kaizen, he teaches you how to teach it. He makes sure you understand the material and he pushes you to be a more effective presenter and trainer in a very individualized and interactive way. I learned a lot from Norman and enjoyed my two days with him."
 – Mark Graban, author of ‘Lean Hospital’