Urgent patience is a key trait of any good leader, although not widely spread or even applied. Under stress and pressure from markets, board of directors, business results or others, leaders tend to shout and scream for quick actions and results. But fail to run a quick critical thinking analysis and tend to misunderstand movement with action.

1. We tend to enter blind survival mode when some urgent situation pops up.
Head down and action now; questions later.
We run around like wild gooses, mostly uncoordinated and with no clear
strategy or approach. We move, but it doesn't mean we're progressing in
tackling the issue. If there's a fire, we grab the first extinctor at hand, and we
don't take the time to read the instructions, incurring the risk of causing more
damage.
Behaving "urgently" is not about shouting louder and screaming to everyone to
move faster indiscriminately.
That's a false urgency that only creates additional stress and blockages where
no one can correctly complete the task at the end – because of the lack of
clear information, instructions, direction or goals.
Urgent patience is a sense of urgency in a fast-changing world but with a
realistic view of resources, priorities, timelines, and objectives—defining how
to attain those goals without riding on dying horses.
Urgent Patience
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