- Management, Organizational effectiveness, Project management, Organizational behavior
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Spare, classical in form, cool and earnest.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 245
- Publisher
- Jing ji xin chao she, Dorset House Pub. Co., Dorset House Pub.
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- Russian, Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780932633057
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First sentence
“Most of us managers are prone to one particular failing: a tendency to manage people as though they were modular components.”
About Tom DeMarco · 1940
American software engineer, author, and consultant (source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93115).
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