never ask a question for which you don’t want to hear the answer.
“Quality takes time and reduces quantity, so it makes you, in a sense, less efficient. The efficiency-optimized organization recognizes quality as its enemy. That's why many corporate Quality Programs are really Quality Reduction Programs in disguise.”
― Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
― Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
“Risk management is not the same as worrying about your project.”
― Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects
― Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects
“It’s easy (and fair) to blame lousy management on lousy managers. But it’s not enough. It’s also necessary to blame the people who allow themselves to be managed so badly.”
― Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
― Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
“Lack of power is a great excuse for failure, but sufficient power is never a necessary condition of leadership. There is never sufficient power. In fact, it is success in the absence of sufficient power that defines leadership.”
― Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
― Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
“When companies can’t invent, it’s usually because their people are too damn busy.”
― Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
― Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
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