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Any vigorous competition will entail at least two elements: offense and defense. Offense is the effo...

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Slack: Getting Past Burnout

If the essential task of middle managers is reinvention, when is that task to be carried out? The an...

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Managers who inspire extraordinary loyalty from their people tend to be highly charismatic, humorous...

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Slack: Getting Past Burnout

The business we're in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers' abilities ...

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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

The best predictor of how much work a knowledge worker will accomplish is not the hours that he or s...

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Slack: Getting Past Burnout

There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal compet...

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Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is li...

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Slack: Getting Past Burnout

When stress is the problem, slack is the solution.

Slack: Getting Past Burnout

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Tom DeMarco

Software Engineer

Born: 1940-08-20

Died: N/A

Tom DeMarco (born 20 August 1940) is a well-known author, teacher, and speaker on software engineering topics. He was the 1986 recipient of the Warnier Prize for "lifetime contribution to the field of computing," and the 1999 recipient of the Stevens Award for "contribution to the methods of software development".More