False Haste: When Waiting Becomes Wisdom
False Haste: When Waiting Becomes Wisdom This week I wrote about a lesson that connects my Master of Divinity studies with corporate culture: the discipline of waiting. In Maria Liu Wong’s book On Becoming Wise Together, she frames waiting as a communal wisdom practice, a time to listen, remember, and re-imagine. That perspective challenges the corporate instinct to treat waiting as weakness. In our rush to look decisive, we confuse urgency with importance. Leaders skip the pause required for discernment, and what we get is “workslop” — half-baked initiatives that collapse under pressure. I shared a story of a pharmaceutical CEO who made the braver choice to hold back, resisting the urge...
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