It took a long and arduous journey to get there, but Kinross Gold ( NYS: KGC ) finally gets it. After years of treating aggressive acquisitions and no-holds-barred volume growth as the company's dominant priorities, the embattled gold miner is developing a vastly different guiding ethos under newly instated CEO J. Paul Rollinson. With increasing emphasis upon disciplined cost reduction and cash flow generation, the company has outlined a program called "The Kinross Way Forward" to unlock "greater value at both our mines and projects." In unveiling the program, Rollinson speaks the magic words that investors have been waiting to hear from Kinross for years: "Our focus will be on quality, and not just quantity." Words are fine and dandy, but Kinross is already backing up the encouraging rhetoric with tangible improvements on multiple fronts.