Mastering the Art of Continuous Improvement the #Kaizen Way in #communication

Many business schools were devouring Japanese management concepts and theories – the same theories thought to be behind the ‘economic miracle’ that had transformed Japan into the world’s third largest economy. 

Japanese cultural behavior is steeped in ancient Japanese traditions. One of these traditions – a favorite of the business schools – is the concept of ‘kaizen’. #Kaizen is difficult to translate but has come to mean seeking continual improvement;

it’s about eliminating defects and trying to find better ways in all that we do…

Kaizen often implies a pursuit for perfection, something that can be seen in so many things Japanese: literature and arts.

Now a days while reading a book “The great passage” – it is Award-winning Japanese author Shion Miura's novel is a reminder that a life dedicated to passion is a life well lived.

I learned about “HAIKU”, from the book, many of us have learned it during our literature classes, Haiku poems can describe anything, but are seldom complicated or hard to understand. Almost all Haiku has a dominant impression, or main idea, that appeals strongly to one of the five senses.

How binding every words efficiently in three lines and admitting words in such a way that it will work as mantra for appreciation & bring the prominent change effortlessly, see how beautifully Sir Rabindranath Tagore had amazingly shared in below haiku about people of japan.

Japanese: Romanization: Translation #16:

古池 furu ike ya Ah! The ancient pond

蛙飛び込む kawazu tobikomu As a frog takes the plunge

水の音 mizu no oto Sound of the water

The Spirit of Japan A Lecture By Sir Rabindranath Tagore

I have travelled in many countries and have met with men of all classes, but never in my travels did I feel the presence of the human so distinctly as in this land. In other great countries, signs of man's power loomed large, and I saw vast organisations which showed efficiency in all their features. There, display and extravagance, in dress, in furniture, in costly entertainments, are startling. They seem to push you back into a corner, like a poor intruder at a feast; they are apt to make you envious, or take your breath away with amazement. There, you do not feel man as supreme; you are hurled against the stupendousness of things that alienates. in Japan, it is not the display of power, or wealth, that is the predominating element. You see everywhere emblems of love and admiration, and not mostly of ambition and greed. You see a people, whose heart has come out and scattered itself in profusion in its commonest utensils of everyday life in its social institutions, in its manners, that are carefully perfect, and in its dealings with things that are not only deft, but graceful in every movement.

Delivered for the Students of the Private Colleges of Tokyo and the Members of the Indo-Japanese Association, at the Keio Gijuku University.July 2, 1916.

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