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Introducing Slack

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  • Jun 5, 2012
  • #Productivity
Jaffer Ali
@jaffer_ali1
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My last treatise on "Efficiency and Fragility" was not well received. It seems there were two reasons; one was a lack of clarity on my part; and secondly most people reading have el... Show More

My last treatise on "Efficiency and Fragility" was not well received. It seems there were two reasons; one was a lack of clarity on my part; and secondly most people reading have elevated efficiency to the goal of business. The notion that being overly efficient can be bad flies in the face of 20th Century management theory. I will make another run at the topic because I believe it is one of the most important topics facing 21st Century businesses.

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Daniel Vassallo @dvassallo · Oct 19, 2022
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Great piece Jaffer. One place we all see deliberate slack in the system is in emergency systems. If you call 911 and an ambulance comes immediately, that’s only possible because a bunch of ambulances and ambulance drivers are deliberately idle.
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