One Small Step Can Change Your Life

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Hi! I just finished reading this short, sweet, easy-to-read book called "One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way" by Robert Maurer. It's a psychologist's attempt to figure out why "Kaizen"-based (micro-plans, small steps, continuous action) approaches to project management seem to consistently succeed where other, much more sophisticated approaches never take off. Executive summary: Kaizen works because people actually take to it and implement it. They do so because making teeny weeny plans sparks the higher order creative parts of the brain necessary to get things done, whereas big, complicated, sophisticated long-term plans cause stress, which in turn stimulates parts of the brain which were wired to shut off the higher orders of the brain so we can focus on running away from hungry predators ("fight or flight"). This in tur…