Slack vs. Lean
As a business person it’s hard not to come down solidly on the side of building the lean organization. On the other hand, organizational slack is a critical success factor. Whether we are looking at the current organizational creativity work of Teresa M. Amabile of the Harvard Business School, or the much older work in the NPD academic community that describes the importance of organization slack in designing an innovation organization there is a large body of knowledge in support of slack. And then there is good common sense.