Is the Five Whys a Mindfulness Technique?
4 min readNov 17, 2020
Can a business problem-solving hack help you focus?
The Five Whys is a system for getting to the true underlying source of a problem by asking a series of ‘why’ questions. It was developed as a means of increasing efficiency at Toyota manufacturing plants in Japan in the sixties and seventies. It was later incorporated into newer efficiency schema including…