Slack
Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
Written by Tom DeMarco
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2001
Price: $14.95
To most companies, efficiency means profits and growth. But what if your “efficient” company—the one with the reduced headcount and the “stretch” goals—is actually slowing down and losing money? What if your employees are burning out doing the work of two or more people, leaving them no time for planning, prioritizing...
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Development as Freedom
Written by Amartya Sen
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: August 15, 2000
Price: $16.00
By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century.
Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire...
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