Lee Herman
Robert Crais does a great job of keeping the story moving, painting 3-dimensional characters (animal and human in this case). Set out to finish in 3 days so the book could go back to the library and ended up finishing it in one sitting. And then realized it was my second time reading it. Still a great read.
Kaizen is an approach to making changes by small steps - teeny, tiny ones if necessary. The idea is to overcome nature resistance, fear, procrastination and other obstacles to dramatic change by making changes so small they don't provoke fear or resistance. By taking the small steps, repeating them for a while if necessary to start a habit, the difficulty of starting on the path to change goes away because the small steps have started you on the path to change.
An easy read, accessible and more matter of fact than preachy (a danger for books on self-improvement). While it's simple, there is depth to the suggested approach and the author cites numerous examples of personal and organizational change he has seen and/or helped bring about with these methods.
