Here is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of my new book…Always Improving:Lessons from the samurai

“The purpose of today’s training is to defeat yesterday’s understanding.” — Miyamoto Musashi

Last month, I had the privilege of publishing my first book on Amazon. It was an amazing experience and one that has fundamentally shifted my thinking around my identity.

For most of my life I never thought of myself as a writer. I almost failed every English class or essay that I ever took and submitted. It was discouraging to say the least.

Then about a year ago something happened. I decided I wanted to just try to write and see what would happen. Turns out that I really enjoy the process of writing and write something every single day now. Sometimes it’s only a few hundred words, other days it can top 1000 words in what seems like only a moment.

Anyway, I wanted to share a short excerpt of my book with you. Enjoy…

“I’ve always felt that there is a similarity between the work of a Continuous Improvement professional and the samurai & martial arts. Not just because Lean Six Sigma decided to use different belt colors to denote levels of expertise. But, there’s something significant about the way that you progress through the different levels of understanding of this work. It tends to have a strong…