Kaizen and the Biblical Model for Continuous Improvement

Christopher Cone

Kaizen means improvement, or literally, good change. Identified by author Masaaki Imai as “the key to Japanese competitive success,”1 kaizen is the philosophy undergirding continuous improvement at every level of the organization, and involving all personnel. As a philosophy, kaizen is the post-World War II driving force behind the success of a host of Japanese companies, led most notably by Toyota.

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Manmade pollutants now blamed for global cooling

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“Pollution in the atmosphere is having an unexpected consequence, scientists say – it’s helping to cool the climate, masking some of the global warming that’s occurred so far,” Scientific American reported last week. OneNewsNow

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Personality Tests—A Waste or a Resource?

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“As Christians, we know that the time and circumstances of our birth were not arbitrarily selected or the product of random chance. We worship a God who, before our birth, knew us in the womb and took the time to know each of us intimately.” CToday

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Cloned monkeys spur warnings against human cloning

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“Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience announced in a Jan. 24 article for the journal Cell that they produced two genetically-identical long-tailed macaque monkeys using a scientific technique known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).” BPNews

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John Piper Ignites Debate for Saying Only Men Should Teach at Seminaries

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“The issue is not whether women should attend seminary in one of its programs and get the best biblical grounding possible,” noted Piper. “The issue is whether women should be models, mentors, and teachers for those preparing for a role that is biblically designed for spiritual men.” CPost

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Waiting for God? Oh.

Clint Archer

Reposted with permission from The Cripplegate.

If you haven’t seen Samuel Beckett’s famous play, Waiting for Godot, let me tell you what you missed by quoting a stage critic, Vivian Mercier: “Waiting for Godot has achieved theoretical impossibility: a play in which … nothing happens, twice.”

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