This book is a companion to The Idea Generator - Quick and Easy Kaizen and teaches the importance of submitting and implementing improvement ideas at work. When you are empowered to make your own work easier, more interesting and to please your customers through your own ideas the workplace magically changes for you. Quick and Easy Kaizen recognizes that you are the expert in your work area and that your ideas are a valuable input towards your personal growth and success and the success of the company you work for.
This workbook teaches the principles of Quick and Easy Kaizen, has many examples and also is a place for you to record your ideas and to keep progress of your achievements on the job. In the future when your boss asks you, "What have you done for us lately?" All you have to do is show him/her your workbook.
Norman Bodek was publisher of Productivity Press and is now the president of PCS Press. Industry Week called him Mr. Productivity and through his 56 trips to Japan he brought to America the bulk of Japanese management practices. In addition to writing and publishing, Norman Bodek also runs a workshop showing others how to implement a Quick and Easy Kaizen system.
Bunji Tozawa is the president of the HR Association in Japan and the author of 23 books on Kaizen. He also runs Quick and Easy Kaizen workshops throughout Japan and the Orient.