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- Herausgeber: Business Book Summaries
- Kategorie: Fachliteratur
- Sprache: Englisch
The must-read summary of Tom DeMarco's book: "Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork and the Myth of Total Efficiency".
This complete summary of the ideas from Tom DeMarco's book "Slack" shows that companies who constantly insist on efficiency are actually creating an environment where they limit flexibility, reduce the capacity for creativity and increase burnout in employees. In his book, the author explains that effective managers should be able to identify and introduce exactly the right amount of slack within working practices in order to avoid these outcomes. This summary introduces four key components for implementing this philosophy and the two different types of slack that will create the best working environment with high levels of efficiency.
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To learn more, read "Slack" and discover the key to creating a flexible working environment that will get the best out of your employees.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014
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Book Presentation Slack by Tom Demarco
Book Abstract
About the Author
Important Note About This Ebook
Summary of Slack (Tom Demarco)
Key #1: Introduce some slack – so the organization has the ability to change.
Key #2: Offset corporate stress – so people don’t feel the need to speed if lost.
Key #3: Build an ability to learn – so change and growth become possible.
Key #4: Learn how to manage risk – so your people can use it to their advantage.
Book Presentation Slack by Tom Demarco
Book Abstract
MAIN IDEA
The more efficient a firm becomes, the less flexibility it has – and the harder it becomes for the business to make any changes that are required for it to operate more effectively in the future. Therefore, managers can actually make their organizations run better if they introduce a little bit of slack within the system allowing new and better ideas to take root and grow to fruition.
Specifically, business builders and managers should keep in mind four keys:
A business manager can always tell when just the right amount of slack exists within their organization since:
Organizational agility will flourish as workers have more time to think about and analyze what they need to do.The job satisfaction levels of key personnel will rise, resulting in better retention of the best people.The organization as a whole will enjoy an improved ability to anticipate and invest in the future.There will be an enhanced ability and capacity to take rather than avoid prudent commercial risks.All in all, just the right amount of slack will position the business ideally to meet the future demands and challenges of the dynamic and evolving global economy.
About the Author
TOM DEMARCO is a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, a consulting firm specializing in organizational change, project management and litigation. He is the author of seven books, including The Deadline, Controlling Software Projects and Peopleware. Mr. DeMarco’s clients include Hewlett-Packard, Apple, IBM, Lucent and others. In 1999, he was awarded the Wayne Stevens Prize for lifetime contribution to software engineering methods.
Important Note About This Ebook
This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, viewpoints and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.
Summary of Slack (Tom Demarco)
Key #1: Introduce some slack – so the organization has the ability to change.
Main Idea
Slack is the complete opposite and natural enemy of efficiency. The paradox is the more things you do to make an organization more efficient now, the greater you impede its ability to change and reinvent itself later on as the business environment changes. Therefore, tolerate and even introduce a little bit of slack within your business organization. It may make you slightly less efficient at present, but it will facilitate future change and growth. Great companies excel at using slack creatively to grow the business.
Supporting Ideas
Approx. 10 years ago, the U.S. And West European business community became concerned about the threat of foreign companies. There was the belief it would be impossible to compete against other countries who had workers willing to work long hours for peanuts. In response to this perceived threat, U.S. business went through an efficiency boom – with excess capacity being purged out of the system through initiatives like “downsizing”, “reinvention” and the elimination of “middle managers”.
As a result, the American and West European economies are currently in the middle of an extended period of great prosperity while many other economies are suffering. However, there are a couple of clouds on the horizon:
Many businesses have succeeded in optimizing their present operations by removing the most critical element for making changes in the future – middle managers. It is at the middle management level that new organizational models which move an enterprise forward always form.In the pursuit of efficiency, firms have completely eliminated any downtime or slack. Yet reinvention and innovation occur only when production is not the key objective. Eliminating all slack has removed an ability to change and grow.
