Surprising how time flies by isn't it. Here we are, now in March of 2011 and I'm thinking to myself "how did that happen?" Feeling the need to catch up, I called a friend of mine here in Austin and went to grab a drink. We spent a while catching up but soon enough, our conversation steered towards shop-talk. See, he's an been deploying lean, six sigma and other similar initiatives for years. And what he said surprised me a bit.