How to be more efficient

I’m reading another brilliant book by Tom DeMarco (author of the excellent Peopleware) called Slack. His basic point is that the drive toward superefficiency is costing us more than it brings in lost creativity and effectiveness.

Key is a quote by Tom Lister (I just posted this over at CodeQuotes):

People under time pressure don’t think faster.

More on this topic to come, but let’s just say that I’ve bought a couple of copies of this book for some colleagues and executives at my current place of employment.