A review by etopiei
Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency by Tom DeMarco

3.0

I adored the first chapter of this book, but ultimately found it a little disappointing. A lot of the ideas were quite disconnected, and although interesting, differed greatly from the book I'd signed up to read. I picked up this book after reading a blog post which re-iterated the message of the first chapter. I found the post, and the start of this book compelling, but Slack lost me in the middle. I think it crammed in a lot of management knowledge and experience, but in the process lost some thrust with the main message. This could probably be a more enjoyable book for managers, but for me I didn't feel it provided a great deal of value.