{"product_id":"2940046225341","title":"The Dark Matter and Dark Energy of Lean Thinking","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow good is a thirty percent success rate? If you were a professional golfer and won thirty percent of the time, you would be the best golfer in history. If you were an airplane pilot with a thirty percent success rate, you’d be dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBusiness cannot afford thirty percent success with improvement efforts but that’s what it’s stuck with. Billions of dollars are wasted nationally and countless employees are frustrated. This situation hasn’t changed in a hundred years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Bob Brown, a certified Lean Thinking leader, attacks this problem the same way astrophysicists understand the workings of the universe. Assuming there is a reason for the abysmal results of change management, especially with Lean Thinking initiatives, he postulated Lean Thinking dark matter and dark energy, identifies what it is, and provides concrete solutions for every organization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBIO:Bob Brown is the author of fourteen other books, including The People Side of Lean Thinking and Mistake-Proofing Teams. He has been a performance improvement consultant for forty years and has spoken to and helped thousands of people in the United States, Great Britain and Australia. He has a PHD in psychology from the United States International University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Brown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174100091120,"sku":"2940046225341","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940046225341_p0.jpg?v=1763698463","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940046225341","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}