Brendon Connelly

I'm Brendon Connelly. I'm a university administrator and formerly an Organizational Development manager for a Fortune 500 company. I wrote the ‘Slacker@Work' manifesto on ChangeThis.com.

Lots of folks wonder about the "Slacker Manager" label—with good reason, I guess. What exactly am I advocating, anyway? Managing slackers? Being a slacker? Actually neither. I talk about being a slacker in the finest sense of the word—the highest ideal. Most literally, I'm talking about actively working to create space in your organization or worklife. Space to think, space to be creative. That's slack—a workplace that isn't absolutely jampacked every minute of every day with no room to breathe. Slack