Andrzej Lorenz

“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

“Learning is limited by an organization’s ability to keep its people.”
― Tom DeMarco, Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams

“A single person acting alone is not likely to effect any meaningful change.”
― Tom DeMarco, Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams

“we don’t work overtime so much to get the work done on time as to shield ourselves from blame when the work inevitably doesn’t get done on time.”
― Tom DeMarco, Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams