From the course: Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement

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Changing the mindset for continuous improvement

Changing the mindset for continuous improvement

From the course: Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Changing the mindset for continuous improvement

- In the movie "Groundhog Day," Mill Murray plays weatherman, Phil Connors, who finds himself thrust into a never ending time loop where he is forced to live the same February 2nd over and over and over. And hilarity ensues. After spending years wasting more time learning a variety of interesting, but unhelpful skills, something clicks and Phil finally gets it. He begins to change his perspective and his life. And there's a lesson there as it relates to building a culture of continuous improvement. The lesson? Don't just live with the same problems over and over. Do something about it. Typically, we approach process improvement like a project with a defined start, stop, and deliverables. So it looks something like this. You identify an issue or a failure. You do something quickly to address the symptoms of the issue, and then you move on, until the next time that is. Continuous improvement should be just what the…

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