Jon Miller Quotes

#1. When kaizen events are designed with the purpose of only improving processes or driving financial savings but not challenging people to develop their skills, kaizen becomes noninfectious.

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#2. Sometimes the best kaizen is no kaizen at all.

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#3. We wrote our first blog post before we wrote our first line of code.

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#4. As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.

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#5. The frequency of leadership going to the gemba is inversely proportional to the number of walls separating them from the gemba.

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#6. Every once in a while you ought to kiss a young lady. And every once in a while you ought to kiss a young lady for a while.

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#7. When you use the term 'cost per lead' you make marketing a cost center. Instead say 'investment per lead.'

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#8. Things happen in baseball, even if, in theory, it's something you don't do. Stats are a tool, but it doesn't mean that's how a game is being played at that moment. There's more than one way to win a game, or have a winning team.

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#9. Many in business feel they have to live up to a machismo archetype of the big-swinging-dick business leader

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#10. The Giants have won. They have won the World Series for the third time in five years. And Madison Bumgarner has firmly etched his name on the all-time World Series record books as one of the greatest World Series pitchers the game has ever seen.

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