Unhurried Leadership | Reclaiming your Pace when Everything Feels Rushed

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟Do you regularly you reach for your phone to reply to messages or emails that could wait? Commit to things before you've even felt out whether it's a true yes? Try to keep up with a kind of momentum that you didn’t create?When the world around us feels compressed and urgent, a subtle kind of imbalance happens. We tend to match its pace without realizing we've made that choice. We lose our footing. We compress our days, shorten our response times, and mistake busyness for progress—all while telling ourselves this is what responsibility looks like.Sometimes that sense of urgency we feel comes dressed up as responsibility. But the underlying truth is that we’re being led by fear. This week, Karlee reflects on what she's been noticing in herself and in the leaders she works with: the creep of false urgency and what gets lost when we mistake speed for competence. In this episode, you'll learn how to distinguish between real urgency and inherited momentum, why the strongest leaders aren't always the fastest responders, and how to rebuild your sense of authority when everything around you feels like it's moving too quickly. If this sense of having to respond quickly and fast and perfectly is not quite working for you and what you're craving is more clarity than chaos, this is the episode for you..What You’ll Learn in This Episode:(7:18) What gets lost when we move too fast (12:35) Why the best teams follow leaders who ask questions(15:20) A simple practice for breaking the urgency cycle in real time(17:45) The shift that lets you stop proving and start leading from your own values(20:15) Why rest isn't something you earnResources Mentioned in this Episode:ENROLL: The Heroic Leadership JourneyPeople Mentioned in this Episode:Maria SiroisHeather Cox RichardsonAmy EdmondsonCitations:Edmondson, A. C. Edmondson, A. C. (2018). The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth. Wiley. Edmondson, A. C. (1999). Psychological safety and learning behavior in work teams. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(2), 350–383.Ericsson, A., Pool, R., & Coyle, D. Ericsson, A., & Pool, R. (2016). Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.Damasio, A. R. Damasio, A. R. (1994). Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. Putnam.Kegan, R., & Lahey, L. L. Kegan, R., & Lahey, L. L. (2009). Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization. Harvard Business Press.Use the “Text Karlee” option above to send your Audio Comments and Questions to us.Connect With Karlee: WebsiteLinkedInInstagramMessy and Magnificent is produced by the folx at Ginni Media.