Slack Quotes

“Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense.”
― Michelle M. Pillow

“Lazy people, the truly lazy people live on information, strategies, ideas, plans and many other criticals, simply to spend one hour of hard work and make the rest feel like a breeze.”
― Alan Rios

“Slack is inexpensive when you don’t need it but exorbitantly costly when you don’t have it. Incorporate buffer space to enhance agility.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Don't hang yourself with the slack you've been given.”
― Krista Ritchie, Infini

“You have a choice, you can be someone who makes it happen or someone who lets it happen.”
― Bobby Darnell, Time For Dervin - Living Large In Geiggityville

“When stress is the problem, slack is the solution.”
― Tom DeMarco, Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

“If the essential task of middle managers is reinvention, when is that task to be carried out? The answer is, during time that is not used up directing day-to-day business. The fact that managers have time on their hands (i.e., their operations tasks take up less than eight hours per day) gives them time for reinvention. The extra time is not waste, but slack. Without it they could function in only their operational roles. Reinvention would be impossible because the people who could make it happen are just too busy to take the time.

Even companies that didn't fire their change centers have hurt themselves by encouraging their middle managers to stay extremely busy. In order to enable change, companies have to learn that keeping managers busy is a blunder. If you have busy managers working under you, they are an indictment of your vision and your capacity to transform that vision into reality. Cut them some slack.”
― Tom DeMarco, Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency