The "City Slackers" - Sprung!

Pete's Points:

It is not often that I come across one article that I find fascinating, much less two in a row. However, there has to be an exception to every rule and Steve McKevitt's book, City Slackers, examines the phenomenon of people who never deliver anything but still seem to be successful. So how do they get away with it?

There are two articles in Management Issues which provide some excerpts from this author and they are worth their weight in gold as far as I am concerned.

Try the "Rise of the City Slacker" and "How to spot a City Slacker"

For those of you still in the work force who are working your backsides off trying to make a difference and wondering why it is that so much effort with effective outcomes is usually unsupported and often not valued while the lack of outcomes and far less effort seems to enable others around you to get their promotions without any accountability or seeming effort, these two articles are a revelation.

Just think about some of the people you know and love who "work" (I use the word loosely) around you who fit the descriptions provided. To know your enemy is to be at least a little better off!

Of course for those of you who may be reading this who can now be identified as part of the "City Slacker" crowd - too bad, so sad - let's hope you actually have to do some work for a living, for a change, instead of dining out on the work of others!