Great post and something that is necessary to make sure that the "lean movement" is not perceived as something brand new that was not known to any of us earlier

Great post and something that is necessary to make sure that the "lean movement" is not perceived as something brand new that was not known to any of us earlier. Eric and Steve have done a stellar stellar job of "teaching lean" and making it easy to understand. But lean has existed in product development, engineering, operations and other functional areas for a long time and the successful people have done these exact things for a long time. But it was never before as well defined and given a name - which Steve and Eric done so brilliantly.