Lean Blog Audio — 311: Will “Kaizen” Get the Buffalo Bills to Next Year’s Super Bowl?

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I’m not a Buffalo Bills fan (a.k.a. “The Bills Mafia”), but I did attend one game at what was then called Rich Stadium in 1998 when I was a grad school intern at Kodak.

Even without being a fan, I wish I could have written a headline for this post that said “Buffalo Bills Kaizen Their Way to a Super Bowl.” Readers of this blog, of course, know that “Kaizen” is a Japanese word meaning “good change” and it’s framed as an approach to engaging everybody in small improvements to the way they do their work.

So what does this have to do with football? Football is a workplace, even if it’s college. I blogged about my alma mater, Northwestern University, using the word “Kaizen” (and the mindset) within their football program.

This article about the Bills isn’t new, but I recently discovered it on Twitter:

Sean McDermott, Bills use ‘Kaizen’ strategy to stress constant improvement

From the article…

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