Ikigai principle

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, Ikigai principle has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Diary Of A CEO (Dec 2025).

Kaizen is a Japanese vocabulary word that outside of Japan has been adopted as a concept in business studies which asserts that significant positive results may be achieved due to the cumulative effect of many, often small improvements to all aspects of a company's operations. Kaizen is put into action by continuously improving every facet of a company's production and requires the participation of all employees from the CEO to assembly line workers. Kaizen also applies to processes, such as