God damn I just tried to read the Wikipedia page on Kaizen and I have never seen so many words used to describe nothing.
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DulyNoted@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
Yeah, this kinda shit is fucking hilarious but people donât realize it. Thereâs this corporate training BS called Kaizen where they take a lot of normal Japanese words like çĄç (muri) and associate weird Eastern mystic significance to them.
Literally just means âimpossibleâ and is frequently used in slang to be like âno no no I couldnât possibly [talk to that hot guy]â. Having it put up on a slide and presented by some white dudes in suits who were nodding solely and talking about the secret Japanese knowledge was just too much to hear.
elscallr@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
notatoad@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
I bet they get really mad if you call them business weebs
rockerface@lemm.ee â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
Is it the corporate equivalent of getting a tattoo that just says âeggs and hamâ in Chinese or something?
teuniac_@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
I mean, thatâs what people do with models and methodologies right? In my language English terms are used when using an English methodology.
Kaizen comes from Japan, was developed in Japan, and it was quite successful there. Itâs not that strange to copy it word for word.
The idea behind it is quite different from what tends to happen in traditional Western companies. Since companies want to be better than their competitors and organizational change is hard, it makes sense to look for ready-made tools, rather than try to reinvent the wheel.
Of course, since (organizational) change makes many employees nervous, depending on how the organization goes about it Kaizen could get a bad name.
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
I fucking hate Kaizen. I had to go through it as part of a job placement program and was convinced it was a cult. Like no, I am not going to call âLeaving a reminder for myselfâ a Gemba. Iâm calling it a note because the japanese didnât fucking invent the idea of writing things down for later.
Usernamemonopoly@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
Itâs all the same bullshit as six sigma with their black belts and shit. Or if you are devops the utter trash called âAgileâ.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
Sprints away
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
They didnât invent the idea of comic books either, so why do we call them âmangaâ if they come from Japan?
Syrc@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
Because itâs a way to distinguish them. In Italy, we also call American comics âcomicsâ (instead of the Italian word for comics) for example.
orphiebaby@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
Manga are a kind of comic, theyâre just pretty specific about their format and choices. Anime is a kind of animated cartoon, itâs just specific about its choices. Even âcoming from Japanâ isnât a requirement as long as it follows those traditionally(-ish) Japanese choices.
Syrc@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
Eh, thereâs different schools of thought. Artists like Junji Ito or Kabi Nagata make stuff very different from the usual manga, but theyâre still called âmangaâ. In the same way, Radiant isnât considered a manga by many even though itâs so close to the actual ones it even got an anime.
thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
Because they come from JapanâŚ
neshura@bookwormstory.social â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
Also probably because the reading direction is flipped
Aceticon@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
Shame on you!
Youâre taking food out of the mouths of the children of Management Consultants with your reckless disregards for the latest corporate management fad!