The 24-Hour Rule: Leading in a Frenetic World

This book is for people aspiring to be great leaders. If you are one of them, The 24-Hour Rule is a simple discipline that promises to help you lead in today's stressed-out work environment. Bestselling author Charles Fred presents research showing the impact of stress on organizational performance and how quickly stress can spread when enabled with technology. This book introduces the discipline of pause as a required leadership competency. Pause is not a delay but a discipline. It s not a waste of time; rather, it affords us the time to deliberate before we act. It allows us to control how we respond and react to others, whether it takes five seconds or 24 hours. Most importantly, it does not delay our ambitions or dampen the need to hustle. Designed to take 35 minutes of your time, this book explains why you should make the decision to pause, which can have a profound effect on your life and how you lead.