Leaders are trained to do more: speak faster, decide quicker, react sooner, do this, do that, plan-do-check-act.
But in my experience, many of the best answers do not come from more doing or from strategic and tactical plans, but from seeing things clearly from a different angle. The so-called eureka moments.
To see things differently and clearly, silence is required. A different perspective is required. We all know that and at the same time we are afraid of silence. We have even invented smartphones and all kinds of screens to avoid being alone with ourselves in silence.
We cannot solve problems on the same level where they arise, so we need to change the “channel”. Silence and letting go are among the most useful tools, and yet also among the most undervalued.
