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Small steps add up
Echoes, per a summary
fs.blog’s account has Maurer “using small steps to accomplish large goals”, the steps adding up to dramatic change. It credits no one; Kaizen is the name of a method, not a credited thinker.
- c. 700 BCE
“for if you add only a little to a little and do this often, soon that little will become great.”
Hesiod, Works and Days. Earliest we can find, about 2,700 years earlier.
- 2004
“using small steps to accomplish large goals”
Secondhand, from fs.blog. Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way (2004).
This book is still in copyright, so we read an account of it, not the book.