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If I had to choose a word to describe the ambient feeling as 2024 gets underway, I’d have to go with “exhaustion.”
After all the turmoil of Covid, post-pandemic inflation, and return-to-office battles, “there no longer seems to be a revolutionary project roiling the knowledge sector,” wrote author and professor Cal Newport in The New Yorker recently. “Office workers seem to have retreated into a pervasive atmosphere of fatigue.”
He concludes, “What started with the Great Resignation has become the Great Exhaustion.”
That certainly jives with my own personal state of mind at the start of 2024. Will this overarching feeling of tiredness be our lot for the rest of the year? Nope, answers Stanford management professor Bob Sutton. But it may lead us into the next great trend to hit workplaces. He terms it “strategic slowness.”
Will 2024 be the year leaders finally hit the brakes?
This prediction comes as part of an interesting project from journalist Katie Couric. On LinkedIn recently, she gathered a group of CEOs and other business thought leaders to answer the question “What will be the next big thing in 2024?” You can check out their diverse and interesting answers here, but the one that really caught my eye came from Stanford’s Sutton, who is known for his popular books and straight talking.
“Strategic slowness will be the key to success for innovative leaders and companies in the coming year,” he predicts. Why? Because the era of “move fast and break things” (as Facebook’s first motto memorably put it) has led to some colossal, high-profile failures.
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