Before I started my blog, I commented often on blogs like Kevin’s (including Bill’s contributions) and Mark’s and was bowled over by their responses and helping hands.

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and all that is useful in its way, but you really get to know how people think when you interact through the so-called blogosphere.

I’d like to mention a new blogger, Jason Semovoski, http://leanstuff.squarespace.com/. Jason’s an example of the young leaders who are running operations, lean programs, and companies. (And Jamie’s another young leader who’s teaching many how to understand lean.) Now that many of us are the “old guard” sooner than we expected, we need to reach out to leaders like Jason and Jamie and bridge the new generation gap. Oh dear, sort of off the subject, but it’s top of mind for me after talking to Jason on the phone yesterday.