Iran across an old but interesting article by Mara Lee on the Hartford Courant website: “Big Exports From Connecticut: Corn, Wheat, Soybeans, Oil; Feds Can’t Explain It.” The article provides a wonderful example of just how far one’s concept of reality can become skewed by not following the basic lean lesson: go to the gemba.

Apparently, we Connecticut folks are getting pretty good at growing and selling things like wheat and soybeans. One little problem about that, however: We don’t.

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