Slack by Tom Demarco

Slack by Tom Demarco

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.

Tom DeMarco is a management consultant that works with companies across the globe. The Deadline (a business novel with over 40,000 copies sold) and Peopleware (a nonfiction book with over 100,000 copies sold) are two of his earlier works. New York City and Camden, Maine are where he spends most of his time.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780767907699
ISBN 10	0767907698
Title	Slack
Author	Tom Demarco
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Year published	2002-04-09
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.