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.

In contrast, what I call "slow time" leadership provides a myriad of financial and interpersonal organizational benefits. 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,........

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