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One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way (Hardcover)
by Robert Maurer
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Kaizen, Continuous improvement, Lean production, Productivity |
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Author: Robert Maurer
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Pub. in: June, 2004
ISBN: 0761129235
Pages: 192
Measurements: 7.1 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA01369
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0761129233
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Ask the questions: "How do people succeed?" and "How do successful people stay successful?" Innovation is a drastic process of change. "A journey of a thousand miles begin with the first step". All change is scary, even small ones. Attempts to achieve change through radical or revolutionary process often fail because they heighten fear. The small steps approach disarm the brain's fear response, stimulate rational thought, and engage creativity.
Ask small questions: 1. Small questions creates an environment where creativity and playfulness is unabashed. 2. Small questions abate fear and are not perceived as threatening. 3. Small question demonstrate interest and importance. 4. The brain loves questions 5. Let other brains chew on the questions for a few days. 6. Questions help individuals move from constriction and constraint towards creativity. The cortex is engaged and moving the person towards success and help you tiptoe past the amygdala and resistence begins to weaken. Fear is replaced with excitement and determination to reach the goal.
Think small thoughts: 1. "Mind sculpture, developed by Ian Roberson, involves stil-imaginery sensory immersion. It requires the practitioner to pretend that they are actually engaged in the action, not just seeing but hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching. In mind sculpture, people image the movement of their muscles, and the rise and fall of their emotions." 2. Mind sculpture allows the practitioner to walk past any mental obstacle. 3. By using Mind sculpturing it will help you feel comfortable about something that feels uncomfortable to you. First, isolate the task your afraid of. Second, decide how many seconds you're willing to devote to mind sculpture for this task each day. Third, when your ready to practice mind sculpture, sit or lie down in a quiet, comfortable spot and close your eyes. Fourth, image your in the difficult and uncomfortable situation. Fifth, expand the visualization to your other senses. Sixth, without moving a muscle image you are performing your task. Seventh, image a positive response to your task. Last, when your ready, try it out with a few small steps.
Small Steps: 1. Small actions form the basis of Kaizen thought. Big bold efforts create fear and anxiety. A Small effort is neither disruptive nor complex to implement, but have big effects. 2. Ask small questions to eliminate fear and help visualize the small step occurring in your mind. Small steps are free. Kaizen steps may be small but they often lead to rapid change. The small step lead you to the 2nd step and onto the 3rd Step. Small steps build confidence in the change process. Start by asking the question, "How can I get the goal done in one minute per day?" Kaizen power can melt even the toughest resistence.
Solve Small Problems: 1. Recall a major mistake you made at some point in your life. What were the small signs that indicated things were not going according to plan? Did you halt the assembly line and start over? Did you ignore the problem in the hopes you'd achieve your results on time anyway? 2. Identify one small mistake 3. Ask yourself if the mistake is part of a larger problem and has the potential to gather velocity. What step can you take to correct the situation? 4. Awareness reduces the probability of repeating the mistake.
Bestow Small Rewards: 1. The reward should be appropriate to the goal. 2. The reward should be appropriate to the person 3. The reward should be free or inexpensive. Eiji Toyoda boast, "Our workers provide 1.5 million suggestions a year and 95 percent of them are put to practical use." In Japan the average reward is $3.88 as opposed to the American average of $458.00). Rewards are a psychological tool. Japanese executives love small rewards because they utilize a basic tenet of human nature: The larger the external rewards, the greater the risk of inhibiting or stunting the native drive for excellence. Big, fancy prizes remove the "intrinsic motivation".
(From quoting an American reader)
Target readers:
All business and non-business readers who longs to achieve business and life success through continuous improvement.
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Robert Maurer is the director of behavioral sciences for the Family Practice Residency Program at Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center and a faculty member of the UCLA School of Medicine. He travels extensively presenting seiminars and consulting on Kaizen to diverse organizations, including corporations, hospital staffs, universities, theater companies, spas--even the British government.
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From Publisher
Introducing the practical and inspirational guide to incorporating Kaizen and its powerful principles into one's daily life. Rooted in the two thousand-year-old wisdom of the Tao Te Ching - "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" - Kaizen is the art of making great and lasting change through small, steady increments. Kaizen is the tortoise versus the hare. Kaizen is the eleven Fortune 500 companies that significantly outperformed the market through moderate, step-by-step actions. Kaizen is losing weight not by a crash diet (which more often than not crashes) but by eating one bite less at each meal - then, a month later, eating two bites less. Kaizen is starting a life-changing exercise program by standing - just standing--on a treadmill for one minute a day.
Written by an expert on Kaizen - Dr. Robert Maurer, a psychologist on the staff at the UCLA medical school who speaks and consults nationally - One Small Step is the gentle but potent way to effect change. Beginning by outlining the all-important role that fear plays in all types of change - and Kaizen's ability to circumvent it - Dr. Maurer then explains the 7 Small Steps: how to Think Small Thoughts, Take Small Actions, Solve Small Problems, and more. He shows how to perform mind sculpture - visualizing virtual change so that real change comes more naturally. Why small rewards motivate better than big rewards. How great discoveries are made by paying attention to the little details most of us overlook. Hundreds of examples of Kaizen at work grace the book, as well as quotes from W. Edwards Deming (who brought Kaizen to Japanese industry), Peter Drucker, coach John Wooden, and others.
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The Chapter headings are:
Intro: One Small Step
1) Why Kaizen Works
2) Ask Small Questions
3) Think Small Thoughts
4) Take Small Actions
5) Solve Small Problems
6) Bestow Small Rewards
7) Identify Small Moments
8) Kaizen for Life |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2008-04-29 00:00>
This book is a valuable extrapolation of the adage "By the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch." It uses the concept of Kaizen or continuous improvement via small steps to help people achieve goals. Maurer's neurological explanations are consistent, though he does not back them up with references, with current neurological knowledge about how the brain adapts to circumstances and helps change behavior, i.e., by taking small Kaizen steps, a person bypasses the amygdala's fight-or-flight response, and allows the individual to gradually but surely progress towards their goals. This book confirms what other self-help authors have advised - take that first step, however small, toward your goals, and take another one the next day, however small. You will eventually gain momentum and achieve what you desire. |
A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2008-04-29 00:00>
Most of us are familiar with goal setting. We have goals, either to loose weight, do the the taxes, look for a new job... and our usual method in doing so is to dedicate ambitious amounts of time and effort to reach the finish line as rapidly as possible. However, if you're like me the sheer immensity of the task oftens leads to procrastination. The bigger the goal, the more likely I'm to put it off. This is where kaizen comes in. Rather than trying to get everything done in one big step, kaizen teaches us to break it up into little chunks, that way the jobs don't seem quite as unapproachable. Granted, results might seem slow at first when all you're doing is 3 push-ups a day for 2 weeks, however, this momentum gradually builds and within several months you'll easily wade into an exercise routine.
The book is easy to read and short. The author starts off explaining what kaizen is and why it's effective. He then devotes subsequent chapters applying the concepts for everyday situations. He gives plenty of examples and minimize on fluff. Overall a worthwhile read. |
A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2008-04-29 00:00>
This is a golden little book. Dr. Maurer has taken a business model for productivity and employee morale and applied it to psychology. He describes very simply how we can overcome fear, and accomplish our goals through small steps. I have often wondered why I haven't accomplished many of my big dreams. I have always described this lack of success as "shooting myself in the foot." I am perplexed as to why this happens. Dr. Maurer explains that it is fear in the brain (based on brain research at UCLA). He explains we can bypass the brain's reaction by taking smaller steps in accomplishing our goals, tiny ones. For example, I keep looking at my garden. It needs weeding, but I am very busy. I always do it all at once, so a month has passed. Now I am doing it, 6' at a time, could be a foot at a time. I stop when that section is done. It will be done in a week or so. It is our grandiose thinking that triggers fear, so he is teaching us to focus on a small part of the project, or goal. This all sounds simple, but it is truly a powerful message. Whether you can't get yourself to exercise, or you are shy socially, you can break your goal down into the simplest and smallest step and,in time, you will have success. I have recommended this book to everyone I meet, friends and strangers. They have all called to thank me for it. The fact that Dr. Maurer's ideas are based on a successful business model, and brain research, means that it appeals to a wider audience, not just the "self help" crowd. All therapists should read this (I was one once). It will save you and your clients time and heartache. Of course, we have to envy Dr. Maurer's clients. You can just feel if you had him in your life, you could do anything. By reading and paying attention to his words, I believe his wise little book will serve you and friends very well. |
A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2008-04-29 00:00>
This is a golden little book. Dr. Maurer has taken a business model for productivity and employee morale and applied it to psychology. He describes very simply how we can overcome fear, and accomplish our goals through small steps. I have often wondered why I haven't accomplished many of my big dreams. I have always described this lack of success as "shooting myself in the foot." I am perplexed as to why this happens. Dr. Maurer explains that it is fear in the brain (based on brain research at UCLA). He explains we can bypass the brain's reaction by taking smaller steps in accomplishing our goals, tiny ones. For example, I keep looking at my garden. It needs weeding, but I am very busy. I always do it all at once, so a month has passed. Now I am doing it, 6' at a time, could be a foot at a time. I stop when that section is done. It will be done in a week or so. It is our grandiose thinking that triggers fear, so he is teaching us to focus on a small part of the project, or goal. This all sounds simple, but it is truly a powerful message. Whether you can't get yourself to exercise, or you are shy socially, you can break your goal down into the simplest and smallest step and,in time, you will have success. I have recommended this book to everyone I meet, friends and strangers. They have all called to thank me for it. The fact that Dr. Maurer's ideas are based on a successful business model, and brain research, means that it appeals to a wider audience, not just the "self help" crowd. All therapists should read this (I was one once). It will save you and your clients time and heartache. Of course, we have to envy Dr. Maurer's clients. You can just feel if you had him in your life, you could do anything. By reading and paying attention to his words, I believe his wise little book will serve you and friends very well. |
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