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Re:Efficiency is the enemy? (2021) by pdonis on Saturday May 07, 2022 @12:39AM (#31292183)
> Slack is unscheduled time, not time that's devoted to performing your duties.

Time that the CEO can spend thinking about big picture things and considering ways to change the organization to make it better is "unscheduled time". That's the point.

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Re:Efficiency is the enemy? (2021) by thaumasiotes on Saturday May 07, 2022 @02:32AM (#31292590)
That time is often easy to reschedule. But it's not unscheduled time; if it gets reallocated to other tasks, company performance will suffer because important work isn't being done. It's not slack.

We can easily state this another way. Slack is unused capacity to do work. The CEO planning his strategy is work, the opposite of slack.

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