Intelligence is wasted on problems that themselves have been caused by an excess of intelligence. Lean Brain Management strives toward uncompromising Lean Brain Quality.
Lean Brain stands for consistent economization of intelligence in all realms of life: Intelligent systems will only be operated by unskilled workers. Education, universities, and schools would become obsolete. A week of training would be enough for virtually any job: “You are now the physician for the measles in the state of Ohio. In response to phone calls, send this prescription.”
Lean Brain is not aimed at dumbing down. Lean Brain can survive on just a very small amount of central intelligence. Potential savings amount to trillions.
Now in English, the book Lean Brain Management by Gunther Dueck presents a radical suggestion for world improvement. It contains concrete advice for managers to economize on intelligence, and is thus - in keeping with the theme - written in an easy-to-read fashion. It contains no self-doubt whatsoever.
Lean Brain Management was written by IBM Germany’s Chief Technologist Gunter Dueck, who is well known for his straight and sarcastic humor. The German edition of this book was honored as a “Management Book of 2006” by the Financial Times Germany. Says Dueck: “I wrote some humanistic books – but no one listened very much. Then I tried a fierce attack with this satirical book and I won a literary award.”
Gunter Dueck, IBM Deutschland GmbH, Mannheim, Germany
Lean Brain Management
More Success and Efficiency by Saving Intelligence
2008. VII, 226 p.
Hardcover. EUR 22.95, £ 17.50, $ 29.95
ISBN 978-3-540-71837-6