Improve Your Leadership by Abandoning "Busy" for "Slow"

When I casually ask leaders how they are doing, they regularly reply with one word: busy.

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.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Psychology Today.