July 25, 2016 at 08:13AM
The Spanish Theory of Value is alive and well among managers everywhere." #readingToday

"The Spanish Theory of Value is alive and well among managers everywhere. You see that whenever they talk about productivity. Productivity ought to mean achieving more in an hour of work, but all too often it has come to mean extracting more for an hour of pay. There is a large difference. The Spanish Theory managers dream of attaining new productivity levels through the simple mechanism of unpaid overtime. They divide whatever work is done in a week by forty hours, not by the eighty or ninety hours that the worker actually put in."

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams" by Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister

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