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Slow Down to Speed Up: Lead, Succeed, and Thrive in a 24/7 World
Slow Down to Speed Lead, Succeed, and Thrive in a 24/7 World is a powerful new resource for leaders from the C-Suite to the front line. Filled with innovative new approaches, pragmatic tools, and real-life success stories, this book tackles the universal challenge of getting better, faster, more sustainable results in a world of nonstop demands and constant connectivity. This book provides the concepts and tools to help leaders successfully strategize, prioritize, lead with purpose, find balance, and gain a competitive edge in today’s fast-paced business environment. Based on Dr. Liz Bywater’s 20 years of professional experience helping individuals, teams, and organizations thrive, the book contains real-world illustrations of the challenges faced by today’s business leaders. Beyond that, it provides actionable guidance to help readers make the best decisions, create a proactive, future-focused work culture, catapult individual and team performance, and lead extraordinarily successful organizations.
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Published November 8, 2017
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September 6, 2019
Liz Bywater’s Slow Down to Speed Up: Lead, Succeed, and Thrive in a 24/7 World is a brief but important instructional work offering readers of many stripes guidance on how they maintain the ever elusive balance between peace of mind and productivity in a demanding modern landscape. The book’s title gives it contents a natural format; Bywater divides the volume into two sections, Slow Down and Speed Up, and this straightforward clarity of design is essential for understanding the work. Bywater has no intention of wasting reader’s time. Instead, she puts forth her argument with intelligence, clarity, and concision throughout the entirety of the book. These are among the work’s chief strengths.
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Bywater aims for the broadest possible audience for Slow Down to Speed Up. She targets readership “… from the C-Suite to the front line” in her efforts to provide modern leadership strategies for the workplace and extending into your personal life. The latter point illustrates another of the book’s core strengths. While much of the work focuses on the business world, Bywater’s ideas are applicable to one’s life away from the workplace as well. We face demands at every turn – from family, life partners, spouses, friends, etcetera. Balancing these competing interests while not giving ourselves short shrift is a challenge everyone faces in some respect and Bywater’s awareness of this deepens her thoughts on the subject.
She provides concrete examples and exercises throughout the book that reinforce her points and provide a roadmap for those interested in testing her proposals. The examples draw from her personal experiences working with major corporations as varied as Thomson Reuters, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Nike, among others. Her exercises speak to the obstacles faced in high end corporate culture as well as smaller businesses. The book’s first half examines the difficulties faced with pressure bearing down on decision makers in results-driven endeavors. Bywater advises readers how to step back for a moment and plot out a forward looking trajectory without ever taking your eyes off the ball.
The second half of the book offers guidance on how decision makers shift from consideration into direct action. Her point of view becomes even richer with during part two of this volume as she moves from the realm of theory and conceptualization into discussing the tools each of us have at our disposal, steps we must take to prevent being swamped by demands of the moment, and clear ideas of how we arrive at desired outcomes propelling ourselves forward into an ever brighter future.
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It is important to note Bywater takes an intensely human approach to these issues. She recognizes we are human beings, not machines, and there will be pitfalls and mistakes along the way. We will be forced to contend with human nature at every turn as well. Her approach is focused, yet measured, and has a near-holistic component – she often figuratively underlines our innate ability to “take our foot off the gas”, even for a time, and center ourselves before we re-enter the fray. Bywater’s well-rounded approach to these issues and her solid suggestions for professionals make this invaluable reference material you can return to time and again.
URL: https://lizbywater.com/
Bywater aims for the broadest possible audience for Slow Down to Speed Up. She targets readership “… from the C-Suite to the front line” in her efforts to provide modern leadership strategies for the workplace and extending into your personal life. The latter point illustrates another of the book’s core strengths. While much of the work focuses on the business world, Bywater’s ideas are applicable to one’s life away from the workplace as well. We face demands at every turn – from family, life partners, spouses, friends, etcetera. Balancing these competing interests while not giving ourselves short shrift is a challenge everyone faces in some respect and Bywater’s awareness of this deepens her thoughts on the subject.
She provides concrete examples and exercises throughout the book that reinforce her points and provide a roadmap for those interested in testing her proposals. The examples draw from her personal experiences working with major corporations as varied as Thomson Reuters, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Nike, among others. Her exercises speak to the obstacles faced in high end corporate culture as well as smaller businesses. The book’s first half examines the difficulties faced with pressure bearing down on decision makers in results-driven endeavors. Bywater advises readers how to step back for a moment and plot out a forward looking trajectory without ever taking your eyes off the ball.
The second half of the book offers guidance on how decision makers shift from consideration into direct action. Her point of view becomes even richer with during part two of this volume as she moves from the realm of theory and conceptualization into discussing the tools each of us have at our disposal, steps we must take to prevent being swamped by demands of the moment, and clear ideas of how we arrive at desired outcomes propelling ourselves forward into an ever brighter future.
AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Slow-Down-Spee...
It is important to note Bywater takes an intensely human approach to these issues. She recognizes we are human beings, not machines, and there will be pitfalls and mistakes along the way. We will be forced to contend with human nature at every turn as well. Her approach is focused, yet measured, and has a near-holistic component – she often figuratively underlines our innate ability to “take our foot off the gas”, even for a time, and center ourselves before we re-enter the fray. Bywater’s well-rounded approach to these issues and her solid suggestions for professionals make this invaluable reference material you can return to time and again.
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May 27, 2019"In today's high velocity, always-on business environment, leaders like you are expected to make incredibly rapid decisions, work at a breakneck pace, and achieve exceptional results--all without losing a moment's time" (3).
"A strategic pause is a deliberate step back from the swirling torrent of daily activity to take a calmer, more thoughtful approach. It's a way to protect time so you can consider how to tackle a challenge, advance your goals, make stellar decisions, create new opportunities, and drive to exceptional outcomes" (15).
"A strategic pause is a deliberate step back from the swirling torrent of daily activity to take a calmer, more thoughtful approach. It's a way to protect time so you can consider how to tackle a challenge, advance your goals, make stellar decisions, create new opportunities, and drive to exceptional outcomes" (15).
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