“In companies that have successfully institutionalized the practice of “continuous improvement,” procedures are constantly being changed to increase productivity, maximize efficiency, and reduce costs. Little transitions are going on all the time. Without some larger, overarching continuity, everyone’s world would feel like chaos. But what does not change in even the most constantly evolving environment is the expectation that every status quo is just a temporary expedient until a better way to do things has been discovered. Every one of those little improvements, though it may cause transitions, reaffirms the unchanging values and procedures that underlie “continuous improvement.”