{"id":1517,"date":"2010-01-21T09:34:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T13:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/blog\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2016-10-23T13:06:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T17:06:27","slug":"the-kaizen-of-zen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2010\/01\/the-kaizen-of-zen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1518\" title=\"horse-in-japanese\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/japanese-horse-150x150.gif\" alt=\"horse-in-japanese\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/>I&#8217;ve recently heard about something that has definite appeal to anyone else being swept downstream in the  Web 2.0 digital river of blogs, tweets, and other social media technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The word &#8220;kaizen&#8221; basically means &#8220;improvement&#8221; in Japanese, but it has come to mean a method of continuous incremental improvements in process or design. Kaizen in this sense developed in post-WWII Japan and is primarily associated with business practices, but I feel has something to offer the technically overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know that kaizen is truly zen&#8211;though, who can say it is not, grasshopper?&#8211;but it sounds like a great way to approach the online dragon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently heard about something that has definite appeal to anyone else being swept downstream in the Web 2.0 digital river of blogs, tweets, and other social media technologies. The word &#8220;kaizen&#8221; basically means &#8220;improvement&#8221; in Japanese, but it has come to mean a method of continuous incremental improvements in process or design. Kaizen in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2010\/01\/the-kaizen-of-zen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kaizen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14753,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/14753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}