The secret to sustainable, effective leadership is not only in knowing when to speed up, and when to slow down. More often than you would think, it’s knowing when to stop.
Effective leadership sometimes requires reducing your pace to a complete standstill.
The idea of intentionally grinding your leadership to a complete stop runs counter to how many leaders are wired. A simple Google search of “fast-paced leadership” produces an astonishing 117,000,000 hits, with articles such as, “7 behaviors of fast-paced, high quality leaders” and “The traits of leaders who do things fast and well.”
Of course, there are certainly times when speed-of-light leadership is in order. But for such leadership to last over the long haul, there are also three times when you must simply stop. Not slow down, but stop.
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