This is just to collect a few thoughts I had on June 28, 2013 to make them easier to find and refer to. This tweet started it: https://twitter.com/GeekTieGuy/statuses/350639064703176705
Here is what the next few tweets summarized:
Slack is to your organization as sleep is to your body: time to regenerate and be inspired by dreams and wake with new energy.
What happens when we deprive the body of sleep? We become manic, disoriented. We diminish our capability to be creative, we go insane.
What happens when we deprive the organization of slack? It becomes reactive, haphazard, brittle, overloaded, unable to think.
I recently led a session at Agile Open California with this same title. It was interesting to a few people, and I was sure I’d blogged my expanding tweets, but I apparently hadn’t. Fixed that now…