The great Dobbs head has appeared as an apparition before me and blown the Smoke of Knowledge from the Mystic Pipe of Slack and it was smelly. The ashtray and the paddle game and that's all I need.
Slack is the degree of freedom in a company that allows it to change.
It could be something as simple as adding an assistant to a department, letting high-priced talent spend less time at the photo copier and more time making key decisions. That Slack which can be described in a business text is false Slack. As far as I can tell, DeMarco just advocates replacing the carrot at the end of the stick with a cheeseburger.