Season 7 Episode 27: Slow Down to Speed Up
Better performance and greater personal effectiveness is directly tied to the ability to slow down in order to speed up. Greater intentionality, focus and vision leads to better and more impactful results.
SHOW NOTES
Jason introduces Season 7 episode 27 of the podcast, Slow down to speed up. Welcome back to the podcast on corporate culture and leadership and thank you for listening. We engage thought leaders like CEOs, CFOs, managers, VPs, directors, and more for this podcast. We wish to create content that engages your mind and heart and allows you to step back and think and add some positivity to your life. We deep dive into today’s topic.
We can’t control everything but what we can control is our response. Still a lot of work to do but wanted to remind the audience what is within our control is the temperature we create in the organizations and teams we work with. If you have a suggestion, please send it to info@jasonvbarger.com
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Please leave a review for the podcast It really helps the podcast to spread these messages out into the world. Please share this podcast with your organization, on your team, or in your life to help spread these messages. Thank you!
If any of these topics are interesting to you please or you want a deep dive on any specific topics, please reach out to us at info@jasonvbarger.com
“This first episode in a series on recharging will change the traditional thinking and encourage us to slow down in order to speed up”
3:00 – Jason introduces today’s topic. Due to the time of the year, Jason released this by design given summer and the holiday that stepping back and recharging allows us to be at our best when our best is needed. This all stems from Jason’s own personal motivations to carve out time to recharge, to study, and to discover new ideas. He does this every year and it allows him to be more clear, efficient, and be better in his life and work.
7:30 – When Jason wrote his second book, ReMember, he cited a study from the Harvard business review that stated that people switch tasks between 300-500 times per day. People buy into the busyness myth; they equate busyness with effectiveness. It leads to only at 30% productivity rate. The most effective people took time to slow down to speed up thus being more effective with tasks.
9:40 – In Jason’s latest book Breathing Oxygen, he talks about the power of rest and elite performance very well, I highly recommend checking it out. How we rest, how we recharge is as important as the hard work we have to put in. American’s leave 768 million hours of unused vacation time each year. We buy into the myth we can’t stop. That somehow will limit our performance.
Stay tuned for more episodes coming out relating to maximizing performance the surprising way to do it by actually slowing down.
Questions to Ponder
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When and in what ways will you allow yourself to slow down in order to speed up?
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How will you recharge so you can be at your best for the road ahead?
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A thermostat is proactive. It sets the temperature in a room. Controls the temperature. Regulates the temperature. But in today’s distracted, fast-paced and digital world, it’s easy for individuals and organizations to act more like thermometers, slipping into reactionary thinking, becoming scattered and inconsistent. The most compelling leaders, teams, organizations, families, or collection of humans of any kind operate in thermostat mode. They calibrate their mind and heart to set the temperature for the vision and culture they want to create. Jason Barger, globally celebrated author, keynote speaker, and founder of Step Back Leadership Consulting, is the host of The Thermostat, a podcast journey to discover authentic leadership, create compelling cultures and find clarity of mission, vision, and values.