+ Follow Kaizen Tag
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[Title] => A Kaizen trick in the men’s public restroom
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[Title] => What your urinal choice says about you
[Summary] => Last week, I wrote briefly about the men’s urinal fly and how Kaizen thinking is helping janitors make their job easy.
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[Title] => Shangri-La employs Kaizen plan
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When it comes to hair, few people are willing to take chances. And with good reason. A bad haircut is cause for hari-kiri. Think of the worst haircut you ever had (in my case, bangs were the cause of my downfall in fourth grade) and try to remember how you looked in photos: that deer-in-headlights look after being caught unaware by someone’s flashing camera, the cowering pose at the corner of group pictures.
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