6 Essential Skills for "Slow Time" Leadership

"Their follow-up response usually depicts an organizational culture characterized by back-to-back, early-morning-to-early-evening meetings. Contrary to the more humane values listed on their organizational websites, the lived culture glorifies being busy as a badge of courage, strength, commitment, and competence. In reality, "busy time" leadership is reactionary, fragmented, transactional, and disrespectful. Ultimately, this approach negatively impacts leaders' ability to acquire critical information for effective decision making, foster a psychologically safe organizational culture, strengthen talent retention, and reduce burnout and quiet quitting."

"Successful leaders understand that slow time leadership is not a luxury. It is a critical approach and way of being in the world that provides highly potent strategic advantages. Slow time leaders convey stability, accurately perceive and act on both explicit and subtle information, make better financial and organizational structure decisions, foster a psychologically safe organizational culture, build meaningful collaborative relationships, achieve targeted results, and sustain long-term objectives."

Many leaders report being "busy" and maintain back-to-back meetings that glorify busyness as a badge of commitment. Busy-time leadership is reactionary, fragmented, transactional, and disrespectful. It undermines information gathering, decision making, psychological safety, talent retention, and increases burnout and quiet quitting. Slow-time leadership is a deliberate, strategic approach that yields financial and interpersonal benefits. Slow-time leaders convey stability, perceive explicit and subtle information accurately, make better financial and structural decisions, foster psychological safety, build collaborative relationships, achieve targeted results, and sustain long-term objectives while aligning with values, purpose, and aspirations.

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