Quotes by : Tom DeMarco

Any vigorous competition will entail at least two elements: offense and defense. Offense is the effort....

Managers who inspire extraordinary loyalty from their people tend to be highly charismatic, humorous,....

The business we're in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers' abilities to....

Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like....

There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal competition....

When stress is the problem, slack is the solution.

The best predictor of how much work a knowledge worker will accomplish is not the hours that he or she....

If the essential task of middle managers is reinvention, when is that task to be carried out? The answer....