Strategic Slowness: How Smart Leaders Avoid Expensive Mistakes

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

Why speed is often overrated in leadership.

The Strategic Slowness Paradox and how it protects you from costly mistakes.

Three practical tools for slowing down strategically without appearing indecisive:

The 24-Hour Rule – Give big decisions at least a day to breathe.

The Question Sequence – Ask yourself: What am I not seeing? What would change if I waited? What’s the cost of being wrong vs. the cost of being slow?

Strategic Delays – Schedule thinking time into your week.

How to identify reversible vs. irreversible decisions using Jeff Bezos’ Type 1 & Type 2 framework.

A challenge to apply strategic slowness to one decision you’re rushing toward right now.

Why It Matters:
Moving fast in the wrong direction just gets you to the wrong place faster. Strategic slowness isn’t weakness—it’s wisdom, leadership, and often the difference between a breakthrough and a very expensive mistake.