GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski
When you have no slack time, you can’t start new projects.
When you have no slack time, you can’t run toward the projects that need your help.
When you have no slack time, you have no time to think.
When you have no slack time, you have no time to learn.
When you have no slack time, there’s no time for concern for others.
When you have no slack time, there’s no time for your best judgment.
When there is no slack time, what used to be personal becomes transactional.
When there is no slack time, any hiccup creates project slip.
When you have no slack time, the critical path will find you.
When no one has slack time, one project’s slip ripples delay into all the others.
When you have no slack time, excitement withers.
When you have no slack time, imagination dies.
When you have no slack time, engagement suffers.
When you have no slack time, burnout will find you.
When you have no slack time, work sucks.
When you have no slack time, people leave.
I have one question for you. How much slack time do you have?
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