Escape the Improvement Trap
Five Ingredients Missing in Most Improvement Recipes
Michael Bremer and Brian McKibben
ISBN: 978-1-4398-1796-4, September 2010, 319 pp., Soft Cover
"We have all suffered from the difficulty of sustaining improvement, and this book
lays out the sustaining process in a simple common sense way that is easy to
read."
-Basem Hishmeh, Chairman, Sigma-Netics, Inc.
Despite performance improvement initiatives such as Lean, Six Sigma, and Supply-
Chain Management, only a handful of companies actually break out of the pack to
transform their enterprise. Providing helpful methods and metrics for effecting true
change, this book demonstrates how to avoid common improvement traps that
inhibit many organizations from rising above the rest.