Slack: Why 100% Efficiency Paralyzes Your Work (Tom DeMarco)

Momentum, your daily edge in Leadership 🚀 · Oct 19, 2026 · 6m

If your calendar is packed with back-to-back meetings, you might feel virtuous, but you are running straight into gridlock. In Slack, systems thinker Tom DeMarco debunks modern management's obsession with total utilization. Squeezing every minute out of your workday does not accelerate results; it leaves you brittle, exhausted, and unable to pivot when priorities shift. Using the classic sliding-tile puzzle as a model, DeMarco proves that empty space isn't waste—it is the only mechanism that makes movement possible. Without slack, a single crisis can bring an entire company to a halt. True…