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“There is no ‘A’ anywhere in your school grades either, Joe, yet here you are in command of a starship. Thus proving that life is not only not fair, it also makes no sense at all.”
“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
“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
“Ownership of the standard should be in the hands of those who do the work.”
― Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
― Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
“Learning is limited by an organization’s ability to keep its people.”
― Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams
― Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams
“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
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