Peopleware

Productive Projects and Teams

Most of us managers are prone to one particular failing: a tendency to manage people as though they were modular components.

	Acknowledgements	ix
	Preface to the Second Edition	xi
	Preface to the First Edition	xiiii
I	Managing the Human Resource	1
1	Somewhere Today, a Project is Failing	3
2	Make a Cheeseburger, Sell a Cheeseburger	7
3	Vienna Waits for You	13
4	Quailty - If Time Permits	19
5	Parkinson's Law Revisited	24
II	The Office Environment	35
7	The Furniture Police	37
8	"You Never Get Anything Done Around Here Between 9 and 5"	42
9	Saving Money on Space	51
Intermezzo	Productivity Measureent and Unidentified Flying Objects	58
10	Brain Time Versus Body Time	62
11	The Telephone	69
12	Bring Back The Door	75
13	Taking Umbrella Steps	81
III	The Right People	93
14	The Hornblower Factor	95
15	Hiring a Juggler	100
16	Happy to Be Here	105
17	The Self-Healing System	113
IV	Growing Productive Teams	121
18	The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts	123
19	The Black Team	129
20	Teamicide	132
21	A Spaghetti Dinner	140
22	Open Kimono	143
23	Chemistry fo Tea Formation	150
V	It's Supposed to Be Fun to Work Here	157
24	Chaos and Order	159
25	Free Electrons	167
26	Holgar Dansk	171
VI	Son of Peopleware	175
27	Teamicide Revisited	177
28	Copetition	181
29	Process Improvement Programs	186
30	Making Change Possible	194
31	Huan Capital	202
32	Organizational Learning	209
33	The Ultimate Management Sin Is...	215
34	The Making of Community	222
	Notes	227
	Bibliography	233
	Index	239
	About the Authors	248

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-238) and index.

Dewey Decimal Class	658.3/14
Library of Congress	HD31 .D4222 1999

Pagination	xiv, 245 p. :
Number of pages	245

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