Demarco Tom
Demarco Tom - Slack Getting Past Burnout Busywork And The Myth Of Total Efficiency - Paperback
Demarco Tom - Slack Getting Past Burnout Busywork And The Myth Of Total Efficiency - Paperback
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Description: 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 De Marco 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.
Title: Slack Getting Past Burnout Busywork And The Myth Of Total Efficiency
Author(s): Demarco Tom
Publisher: Broadway Books (A Division Of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Barcode: 9780767907699
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 4/9/2002
Category: Personnel & Human Resources Management
Description: 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 De Marco 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.
Title: Slack Getting Past Burnout Busywork And The Myth Of Total Efficiency
Author(s): Demarco Tom
Publisher: Broadway Books (A Division Of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Barcode: 9780767907699
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 4/9/2002
Category: Personnel & Human Resources Management
