What Lean says about the Stanford Kicker

Mark Graban has an excellent post on the Lean Blog on the blaming of the Stanford kicker for their 41-38 loss to Oklahoma State in the Fiesta Bowl.  Holding with the dogma of lean, failure of a system (football team to win the game) is rarely a single root cause (the kicker).  

Mark's post is entertaining as it is informative.  Here is yet another great application of lean thinking:

http://www.leanblog.org/2012/01/blame-the-stanford-kicker-blame-the-kicker/