Slack

by Tom DeMarco

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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...Read more
  • ISBN10 1299181082
  • ISBN13 9781299181083
  • Publish Date 1 January 2001
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 14 April 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Crown Business
  • Format eBook
  • Language English