Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams 2nd Revised edition

Highlights ways in which managers fail to motivate members of teams to produce their best work, and demonstrates methods for improvement. Advocates such changes as elimination of the "police mentality" in management and investment by bosses in superior workspace for employees. Dismisses many of management's favorite canards, including the one that states that workers are inefficient when working from home. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Partial ContentsPart I: Managing The Human Resource- Somewhere Today, a Project Is Failing- Quality--If Time PermitsPart II: The Office Environment- The Furniture Police- "You Never Get Anything Done Around Here Between 9 and 5"- Bring Back the DoorPart III: The Right People- Hiring a Juggler- Happy to Be HerePart IV: Growing Productive Teams- Teamicide- Chemistry for Team FormationPart V: It's Supposed To Be Fun To Work Here- Free Electrons- Holgar DanskPart VI: Son Of Peopleware- Teamicide RevisitedThose Damn Posters and Plaques - Overtime; An Unanticipated Side Effect- CompetitionConsider an Analogy - Does It Matter? The Importance of Coaching - Teamicide Re-revisited - Mixing Metaphors- Process Improvement ProgramsA Short History - The Paradox of Process improvement Programs - It's About the Benefit, Stupid - The Great Process Improvement Contradiction- Making Change PossibleAnd Now, a Few Words from Another Famous Systems Consultant . . . - That's a Swell Idea, Boss. I'll Get Right On It.- Human CapitalAssessing the Investment in Human Capital - What Is the Ramp-Up Time for an Experienced Worker? - Playing Up to Wall Street- Organizational LearningExperience and Learning - Redesign Example - The Key Question About Organizational Learning - The Management Team - Danger in the White Space- The Ultimate Management Sin Is. . .Status Meetings Are About Status - Early Overstaffing - Fragmentation Again - Respecting Your Investment- The Making of CommunityDigression on Corporate Politics - Why It Matters - Pulling Off the Magic

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