Tom DeMarco - Slack
Tom DeMarco - Slack 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…
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Tom DeMarco - Slack
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? That principle is the value of slack, the degree of freedom in a company that allows it to change. 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.
It means embracing risk, eliminating fear, and knowing when to go slow. 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. Slack allows for change, fosters creativity, promotes quality,