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Quality Improvement Insight from Mark Twain

When asked how he tackled writing books, Twain replied with his simple secret to success. Here’s how it applies to quality improvement:



“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma Demystified” and QI Macros [software].

Mark Twain said the secret to being successful is to get started, and to get started you have to take your huge, potentially impossibly unmanageable thing – a project – and break it down into smaller chunks, and then you start on the first one. You just chunk it down, start on the first one and work your way through.

Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights.