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Unhurried at Work
How can we work in a way that makes the most of our human qualities, at a speed that works for us?
Being unhurried is about working as we messy, imperfect, normal human beings. The more we accept that, the more fun it turns out we can have.
To be unhurried is to move at the right pace for the task at hand, to understand our place in relation to others and to be realistic about what can and should be achieved.
This book tells the story of my journey towards a more unhurried way of working and living, drawing on five years of conversational experiments and over 15 years facilitating meetings and events around the world.
I share what I have learned, and offer some pointers to a way of working that allows human beings to work at their best - instead of rushing to keep up in a world dominated by machines and algorithms.
When we hurry less, we increase the likelihood of serendipity and discover the benefits of "effortless effort".This short book might take you less than an hour to read - if you go cover-to-cover. And I've written it for dipping in and out, because I don't want reading to be laborious. It's not an instruction manual, how-to guide or self-help book.
I'm aiming to provide inspiration and food for thought so that you can find your own unhurried path with your own surprises and discoveries.
Johnnie Moore is a facilitator who has worked with businesses, charities and activists around the world. He's a visiting tutor at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University.
Being unhurried is about working as we messy, imperfect, normal human beings. The more we accept that, the more fun it turns out we can have.
To be unhurried is to move at the right pace for the task at hand, to understand our place in relation to others and to be realistic about what can and should be achieved.
This book tells the story of my journey towards a more unhurried way of working and living, drawing on five years of conversational experiments and over 15 years facilitating meetings and events around the world.
I share what I have learned, and offer some pointers to a way of working that allows human beings to work at their best - instead of rushing to keep up in a world dominated by machines and algorithms.
When we hurry less, we increase the likelihood of serendipity and discover the benefits of "effortless effort".This short book might take you less than an hour to read - if you go cover-to-cover. And I've written it for dipping in and out, because I don't want reading to be laborious. It's not an instruction manual, how-to guide or self-help book.
I'm aiming to provide inspiration and food for thought so that you can find your own unhurried path with your own surprises and discoveries.
Johnnie Moore is a facilitator who has worked with businesses, charities and activists around the world. He's a visiting tutor at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University.
83 pages, Paperback
Published April 17, 2020
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Johnnie Moore
25 books25 followersJohnnie Moore author of Defying ISIS, is a humanitarian who has been called one of the "world's most influential young leaders" and "a modern day Dietrich Bonhoeffer." He has appeared on dozens of leading television, radio, print and online outlets. He is also a widely read opinion columnist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, Fox News, Relevant Magazine and CNN. He serves on the boards of World Help, the National Association of Evangelicals, the Dream Center LA, the U.S. Lausanne Committee, and the World Evangelical Alliance. He is a Senior Fellow at the Liberty University Center for Apologetics and Cultural Engagement, a Senior Contributing Editor to The Christian Post, the co-Founder of The Cradle Fund, the consulting executive director of the Persecution Intervention Fund, the executive director of the Nazarene Fund, and a contributor to Fox News and The Blaze. He is President of The KAIROS Company.
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October 17, 2024
This short book is quite the little treasure. You can probably read it in an hour, but I've been enjoying dipping in and out of it over the last week or so. The central message is 'slow down', and kind of live with things which are sticky and tricky and see how they sort themselves out.
I've been trying this at work quite a bit recently. When others are rushing about I've intentionally engaged with work at a slower, and more thoughtful pace and giving myself the time to reflect and go a little slower. I'm now seeing with perfect clarity how our pace is wrong at work. There are things which are rushed which really need to be slowed right down and thought through. Likewise there are things which drag on, where cadence and pace would be better. The common theme are the needs of the hierarchy as it is them demanding things hurry up, and their needs and slow decision making what is slowing other things down.
There is lots of learning in here and I am sure over the coming weeks things will resonate with me. What I am struck with, are the concepts of 'unhurried conversations' and how they interrelate with warm data and how giving space for conversation can yield amazing insight. It's interesting that in a world that demands more efficient meetings, tighter structures and agendas (and I think there is a place for this), that leaving something open and letting people speak is wonderful to surface what really matters.
I also liked the observation that active listening is quite hard and we shouldn't expect it all the time. It was also good to read one of my favourite facilitation techniques - that of silence. Holding a silence in group work can be one of the best things to release something really important. The book serves as a timely reminder for me to be more comfortable with writer's block or creative blocks.
Enjoyed reading this one.
I've been trying this at work quite a bit recently. When others are rushing about I've intentionally engaged with work at a slower, and more thoughtful pace and giving myself the time to reflect and go a little slower. I'm now seeing with perfect clarity how our pace is wrong at work. There are things which are rushed which really need to be slowed right down and thought through. Likewise there are things which drag on, where cadence and pace would be better. The common theme are the needs of the hierarchy as it is them demanding things hurry up, and their needs and slow decision making what is slowing other things down.
There is lots of learning in here and I am sure over the coming weeks things will resonate with me. What I am struck with, are the concepts of 'unhurried conversations' and how they interrelate with warm data and how giving space for conversation can yield amazing insight. It's interesting that in a world that demands more efficient meetings, tighter structures and agendas (and I think there is a place for this), that leaving something open and letting people speak is wonderful to surface what really matters.
I also liked the observation that active listening is quite hard and we shouldn't expect it all the time. It was also good to read one of my favourite facilitation techniques - that of silence. Holding a silence in group work can be one of the best things to release something really important. The book serves as a timely reminder for me to be more comfortable with writer's block or creative blocks.
Enjoyed reading this one.
May 22, 2020
If the covid pandemium brought me one good thing it is discovering and participating in unhurried conversations with Johnnie, Timo, Nadia, Ton in English, in Dutch and soon... maybe in Italian.
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