1. Kaizen & The Art of Eating Elephant Trainer : Hasmar Bin Ramley Do you have an elephant that needs to be eaten? If you did, would you know?
2. “ It is often used for cases in which something "is hard to describe, but instantly recognizable when spotted.“ In Human Life : “ We often know or feel something is not right, but cannot describe it adequately.“ In Continuous Kaizen: “ Continuous improvement through kaizen requires setting up standards as a result of the change, making normal and abnormal very clear so that the problem is both easy to spot and to describe “ The Elephant Test : three common metaphors involving elephants and the "eating of them" , or resolving the problem through kaizen.
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6. How do you eat an elephant ? through many small bites. Eating an elephant is a metaphor for accomplishing a daunting task . An elephant is so large that there is no animal on this planet that can eat it in one bite. The same is true of many of the problems, projects or challenges we give ourselves: we can't do it all at once, or all by ourselves. The kaizen approach is to start now and make many small improvements , enlisting the ideas and efforts of everyone , working relentlessly until the job is done.
7. Even an elephant won't last long in the piranha-infested waters of the Amazon , and the same is true of even our toughest problems when addressed through kaizen.