Why doesn't our political leadership apply kaizen to government?  That's a leader/party I would support.  But no, seem to be content to have for every front-line service provider (which I don't begrudge--unless the function can be automated or online) at least 10 backoffice utterly useless admin and policy staff, to say nothing about layer upon layer of managers, senior managers, directors, executive directors, etc etc, all doing little more than shuffling paper on the public dime.