Leadership is about timing, is about knowing when to go fast, and when to move slowly. In turbulent times, the only thing to do is to look forward, towards your vision. Don’t fall in the trap of speeding up when everyone else is doing it, or slowing down because everybody’s doing it too.
The vision you share with your team, your people is the lighthouse that will guide you. The vision is what helps you to stay focused. And the clearer the vision is, the easier to decide at what speed to go ahead it is. Turbulent times should be and opportunity to foster creativity, to give the most of ourselves. Difficult circumstances are tests to our integrity, to our commitment, and in the end to ourselves.
When everything is fine, it’s too easy to be good or great. It’s in difficult times when you reveal who you are. Embrace the circumstances you’re on now, take your vision, and make an informed decision to slow down or speed up, based on your experience and your commitment to achieve what you have to.
Your antidote to almost any temptation in leadership is your vision. If you’re faced with problems, just test them against your vision, and you will certainly find and answer.
Be alert, be a leader 
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LEADERSHIP ACTIONS
Answer the following questions:
- Do you need to speed up or slow down? Why?
- Are you sure that will help you to move toward your vision?
- Keep focused on your vision, and keep moving.
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Leadership is based on intution developed over the period based on experience during various problems faced and solved. Leadership is not just acting based on immediate perception of external inputs; it is beyond that for achieving long term meanings.
All what is said here is very TRUE indeed ….. but there is another angle to look at the speed .
The SPEED = SIZE OF GOAL multiplied by the DEGREE OF MOTIVATION divided by the AMOUNT OF TIME AVAILABLE
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