NO.1 - Work on, not in, Your Business

1. There's one fact that can truly be labeled a blinding flash of the obvious if you're sincere about improving your business. If you wait to have time, you'll never get around to it. Some law of nature always fills our agenda. Practicing kaizen and continuous improvement means you must make time to work on, not just in, your business. You will never have time if you don't make the time.

2. Jack was always too busy working to rethink marketing strategies and to be cultivating potential customers. No amount of pleading by his sales staff could get him away from operations. He believed the company would always have a steady flow of work. When their largest customer defected to a competitor, jack was faced with making a mad scramble to replace the work or be faced with laying off many of his quality workers that he would probably never get back.

3. It's easy to overlook needed improvement today, and it's almost certain you'll look back in time and say, "I wish i had.....,' ' I should have......' and 'Why didn't I.....?' as they'll become part of the "coulda, woulda, shoulda" routine.

Epilogue: Prosrascinationrobs us of a valuable commodity: TIME. Today is the day to begin improving and practicing kaizen.