Peopleware

I've just finished to read Peopleware, by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister. The first few chapters (essays) where great. However, as I dwelled deeper in the book, I've encountered myself feeling less and less interested. Now, I understand that the book might be a bit out-dated (being written more than 20 years ago), but the extra chapters in the 2nd edition were suppose to handle that. Instead, they felt like the writers lost a bit of they touch - the original essays are amazingly written (even those that interested me less), but the new one were just "weaker". Another thing that I felt, was that I am not really the right audience for this book. Although I lead a team of several software engineers, I am not really a part of the Enterprise community/politics. Our company, being somewhat smaller, more agile, and less "formal", does not fit in the corporate image that that the authors try to paint. Some of the mental adjustments that I had to make were just not that easy to make. All-in-all, I believe the book is a good read, and I'd recommend it to at least some of my peers, but wouldn't insist that they read it too fanatically.