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Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Tom DeMarcoPublish date:2002-04-09Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Crown CurrencyISBN-13:9780767907699ISBN-10:767907698UPC:9780767907699Book Category:Business & Economics, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Management, Development, BusinessBook Topic:Business DevelopmentSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC77D0MD26
If your company's goal is to become fast, responsive, and agile, more efficiency is not the answer--you need more slack.

Why is it that today's superefficient organizations are ailing? Tom DeMarco, a leading management consultant to both Fortune 500 and up-and-coming companies, reveals a counterintuitive principle that explains why efficiency efforts can slow a company down. That principle is the value of slack, the degree of freedom in a company that allows it to change. Implementing slack could be as simple as adding an assistant to a department and letting high-priced talent spend less time at the photocopier and more time making key decisions, or it could mean designing workloads that allow people room to think, innovate, and reinvent themselves. It means embracing risk, eliminating fear, and knowing when to go slow. Slack allows for change, fosters creativity, promotes quality, and, above all, produces growth.

With an approach that works for new- and old-economy companies alike, this revolutionary handbook debunks commonly held assumptions about real-world management, and gives you and your company a brand-new model for achieving and maintaining true effectiveness.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Crown CurrencyISBN-13:9780767907699ISBN-10:767907698UPC:9780767907699Book Category:Business & Economics, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Management, Development, BusinessBook Topic:Business DevelopmentSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC77D0MD26
Tom DeMarco is an international management consultant with clients in numerous industries. His previous books include The Deadline (a business novel with more than 40,000 copies sold) and Peopleware (nonfiction, with more than 100,000 copies sold). He divides his time between New York City and Camden, Maine.
Publisher: Crown Currency

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