Another principle of Slow Leadership
A key decision for everyone is to choose the correct amount of detail you need to be involved in. Getting this wrong causes waste of time and effort. If you need to be aware of fine detail, but you rush it and skim over only the broadest elements, chances are the [...]

To be action-oriented carries a heavy responsibility
The more carefully you consider your options, the more appropriate your actions can be. That�€™s important. Thoughts don�€™t change anything by themselves, but even a small action has the potential to change your whole world. To be �€œaction oriented�€� should never mean rushing into any action, purely for the [...]

How your mind cheats you on a daily basis
Mental perspective, like the perspective in a picture, relies on tricking your mind. You think you�€™re seeing the full picture, but you are not. What you have is limited and partial information, filled out with assumptions, beliefs, and other purely mental constructions. Only time and careful examination [...]

Our lust for speed is ruining our world
(Today is Blog Action Day when thousands of bloggers all over the world are writing on a single theme: our environment.)
Speed sometimes seems to be everything these days. We want to go everywhere faster, get everything faster, use it all faster, and throw it away faster.
Despite all the [...]

Lessons from the past can point the way forward still
 
The Ancient Greeks used tales and myths of gods and heroes as a way to communicate important messages about the real dilemmas of life: like how to face issues where your integrity and honesty pull one way and your sense of expediency and self-preservation pull the [...]

This post has been contributed by one of our regular readers from The Netherlands, Douwe van der Werf, who lives in Amsterdam—one of my favorite cities in the world. If you too would like to suggest an article for Slow Leadership, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact us at authors@slowleadership.org.
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The third basic principle of Slow Leadership
The primary task of any leader is to set the group�€™s direction and see that it�€™s maintained. Like the captain of a ship, it�€™s his or her responsibility to set the course.
Direction isn�€™t the same as vision, mission or purpose. The first two are ideals: mental images of what [...]

A new study suggests workplace stress may be as hazardous to your heart health as smoking, high cholesterol and other conventional risk factors for cardiovascular disease
 
Maybe this will finally convince some of the “I can take anything work can throw at me—and so should you” brigade that macho posturing about uncivilized hours and work amounts [...]

Despite the constant emphasis on communication, today�€™s levels of understanding are worse than ever
Listening properly takes time and attention. It means that you have to concentrate on what the other person is saying, not on what is going on inside your head. Sadly, in our rushed, frantic world, with its obsession with quick gains, less [...]

Is loyalty to the boss and the company always admirable?
In my career, I�€™ve experienced times when disloyalty was disruptive and killed any sense of trust. But I�€™ve also seen cases where too much unquestioning loyalty meant important issues were suppressed until it was too late. It�€™s made me wonder if open questioning of authority, short [...]