Slow down and get there faster
That’s the premise in this post from Carmine Coyote, the prolific author of Slow Leadership. Here is a good example of why slow is not the same as lazy. But I have to ask this question, do we want to get there faster?
My first reaction to a comment like “It may seem counter-intuitive” [ to slow down in order to get there faster], is to object. But I, and probably you, dear reader, are slow.
However, Carmine is right, about counter-intuition in this case. Our biology impels to to act quickly in an emergency. We are filled with adrenaline (and who knows what other chemicals) when we need to react quickly.
But most of the time, we are not in a life-threatening situation. Sometimes, you have to go in the wrong direction to get to where you want to go. Think about the freeway on-ramp. Sometimes you have to go north if you want to go south.
Rushing is of course a revolting subject, but it must be discussed. Rushing is a reality, and there is much time abuse in the world. Slow Leadership is about management. Here is a quote:
One of the worst aspects of today’s macho management is that it encourages decision makers to operate with a minimum of input. Haste forces them to work with summaries and headlines prepared by others. They rarely have the chance to explore the options for themselves. Even choices that might involve massive costs and huge potential profits or losses are taken on the basis of headline figures summarized on a single sheet of paper or a few PowerPoint slides.
I am sorry that this quote mentions the word PowerPoint which may be offensive to readers. I know many have suffered through such presentations, and I don’t want to cause anxiety.
I am all for simplicity, but I am with Carmine, rushing leads to oversimplification. That’s a problem.
This post is from http://www.blog.slowdownnow.org/
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