When you have just been promoted a sense of ease is often the last thing you are feeling, or,in fact, think would be useful. It seems much more important to rush to get up to speed, to be seen to be on top of things, to be doing something...and quickly.
If you are in a hurry there must be lots going on and you must be really important, right?
In reality, urgency is destructive. It creates anxiety, quick, rather than correct, solutions and a general inability to think straight in most of us.
Ease, on the other hand, is a deceptively gentle catalyst. It allows the mind to broaden and reach for new and better solutions and to see those imagined emergencies for what they really are.
In your new role, how much more clearly could you see what needs to be done, and hear what people are really saying to you if you were at ease?
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