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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (213370)	1/1/2013 3:41:21 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 541345

Thanks for the kudos - it costs dearly in salary and promotions until one communicates in the style of B. "The left" - Democrats - liberals, progressives, etc. should learn to understand Leaning the system but understand that language matters. I propose the term slang term Buff (trademark pending for being fit - LOL). Lean is about knowing where you spent your money and how each step in the process transforms the product. Lean is about removing those things the customer doesn't want to pay for. If you follow each dollar spent with an accountant, and ask at each step in the process "how does this step or person increase the value to the customer and is the transformation in this step something that the customer wants to pay for?" you get to Lean. Lean manufacturing and Lean supply chain are excellent processes for government, but they are stated in the style of being restrictive and involving cuts. This limits their appeal. Being Buff means that you get more from what you are already doing. You are exercising 1 hour a day, so you may wonder if you can get a 3 hour workout in that 1 hour. I want a Buff government - neither body builder nor couch potato, but suitably fit. I want a Buff set of social programs. If there is waste, then I want that waste converted to functional and Lean program. Government acts as though this is a zero sum game and that it is fully optimized. I have never seen a bureaucracy that was anywhere near optimized.