Slow down to speed up. 🔥

We are obsessed with synchronous communication and fast exchange. There's a believe that this leads to faster decision making and better performance.

Everything is urgent. We dread every new notifications which might be another task, a question asked the 100th time, or just a distraction from the task at hand. It adds stress. 

Not getting a response instantly adds anxiety - was I heard? will there be an answer? when? 

Synchronous communication causes bottlenecks, overflow of unstructured information and just a mess: it's impossible to find information in company chats (Slack, MS Teams etc). 

A slow down to take stock, structure information and document decisions would actually add effectiveness and bring better results long-term.

It's like this fire: You can speed up and just lighten up a canister of petroleum. Or you can take time and create something that is much more enjoyable, longer lasting and sustainable.


#asynchronouscommunication #communication #newwaysofworking