 The free and uninhibited flow of ideas between workers and management in a relatively flat hierarchical structure that is perhaps the most central trademark of MBM stands in stark contrast to the innovation-stifling hierarchy of the USSR.Koch describes himself as a scientist and uses his self-proclaimed vast knowledge of wide-ranging topics such as history, politics, government, economics, psychology, human action and technology by demonstrating the ways that each affects business management, decision making, and profitability.The publisher lists the five dimensions of MBM, each rooted in what it calls "the Science of Human Action"