The Slow Fix
Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better In a World Addicted to Speed
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Publisher Description
In The Slow Fix, bestselling author Carl Honoré delivers an exhilarating model for effective problem-solving, and provides brilliant insights on how you can solve problems, work smarter, and live better. Honoré decodes how we approach problems and paves the way to better decision-making and generating long-term solutions to life’s inevitable challenges. Engaging and thought-provoking, The Slow Fix revolutionizes the way we live, work, consume, and think, ultimately increasing our wins and enhancing personal success.
With The Slow Fix, Honoré details a new paradigm for efficient, sustainable problem solving, teaching us how to use time to build expertise, take advantage of teamwork, find the right messenger to deliver our message, and much more.
Why do our quick fixes fail—and what can we learn from the patient, holistic methods that succeed?
Systems Thinking: Learn to see the whole picture. Honoré reveals how to join the dots between seemingly unrelated factors to find the true root cause of any problem.A Long-Term Mindset: Escape the tyranny of the quick fix. Discover why patience is a strategic advantage and how slowing down can lead to more effective, sustainable outcomes.Leadership Frameworks: From the factory floor at Toyota to the mayor’s office in Bogotá, see how effective leaders inspire collaboration and empower their teams to solve problems from the ground up.Creativity and Innovation: Unlock new solutions by harnessing the power of collaboration, play, and even failure. This book shows why the best ideas often come from thinking differently.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
No more shortcuts, argues this scattershot primer on taking the hard way out. Journalist Honor (In Praise of Slowness) deplores society's addiction to the cheap, facile, shortsighted, clich d "quick fix," and insists that solving our knottiest problems requires long horizons, focused effort, complex strategizing, and deep thought. He applies this perspective to a slew of business and public policy case studies, including corporate turnarounds, the rehabilitation of chaotic ghetto schools, and Bogot , Colombia's celebrated bus system. Honor 's readable but sketchy summaries glean useful insights from these examples, but no coherent approach gels from his contradictory mishmash of managerial buzz-concepts; readers are enjoined to both think holistically and fixate on details, to simultaneously embrace egoless collaborative teams, solitary introspection, and charismatic leaders. Disconcertingly, many of the nostrums he touts sound very much like cursory quick fixes: companies seeking technical breakthroughs can crowdsource them on a Web site instead of funding R&D programs; an online game called Chore Wars magically convinces kids and husbands to do their share of housekeeping; and "research suggests that just two minutes of reasoned reflection can help us look beyond our biases." Honor 's slowness paradigm feels like just another glib, split-second substitute for serious analysis.
