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I’ve been thinking about how we work, specifically how we improve things. We’re always tasked with making things better, improving our work, our processes, and of course our results.
And I think it comes down to two specific patterns. One way is that we take a way we do things or the outcome we generate and find ways to make it just a little bit better. We might only move things a little bit, but that improvement can certainly add up. Let’s call this improvement pattern, Incremental.
What’s great about the incremental pattern is that, since we are living and doing the process and making outcomes, we begin to understand it in an almost instinctual fashion and we also can start to see those little things we can do to make it better.
We can even apply this to creative thinking, taking some clever idea we had, or someone else had and examine it to find some small or maybe not so small ways to make it a little bit better. This incremental pattern is a very strong one with us.
It goes back to how we learn, we, after all, are very good at trial and error learning. We begin this at the earliest age and through trying, failing and adjusting, we come to learn. How we begin also is an innate human skill. We start this whole thing off by observation, seeing someone else do something, we mimic…
