By Kevin Meyer A story in this morning's paper on our new San Luis Obispo sheriff, Ian Parkinson, begins with the following story: On a recent S…

by BILL WADDELL When asked about the death of his closest friend, attorney Joseph Choate, Mark Twain said that Choate had tried telling the truth for…

by BILL WADDELL As everyone pursuing the lean path has known for as along as they have been on the path, the heart of it all is eliminating waste - a…

By Kevin Meyer In March of 2009 I, along with Jon Miller and Ron Pereira, launched Gemba Academy. We had no idea what to expect when the site first…

By Kevin Meyer We all know how easy it is to jump to the quick and easy conclusion that people are the cause of problems.  We see it every day in eve…

By Kevin Meyer This post is going to tick off a bunch of folks from both ends of the political spectrum, but there's a limit to how much centrist…

By Kevin Meyer And I don't mean San Francisco, Mexico.  This is "high cost" San Francisco in nutty "high cost" California in…

by BILL WADDELL In one of the best performing companies I have worked with it was within a very few hours of my arrival for my first visit that I hea…