Kaizen (verb) - 1988

[Benjamin Barrett]

1988: "Choosing Sides: Unions and the Team Concept" by Mike Parker, Jane Slaughter (http://ow.ly/hLz5Z).

Michael Chriton's 1992 "Rising Sun" gave this verb a much higher profile (http://ow.ly/hLz95).

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

On Feb 14, 2013, at 11:59 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> I started using "kaizen" as a verb in the late 1990s when I interpreted =
> in the lean manufacturing field. I had stopped that by 2000.
>
> The earliest I see is a post in 2005 =
> (http://www.multiverse.org/fora/showthread.php?t=3D1959).
>
> The OED and Wiktionary do not have the verb meaning.
>
> FWIW, I sometimes used "rekaizen" and "dekaizen," tongue-in-cheek.

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