An assembly line keeps going. Pause to think and whatever it is you are assembling is ten yards down the track. Unless you keep going you end up off station, which doesn’t make you popular with guy whose toes you are now standing on.
But even if we don’t work on an assembly line, it still feels like it at times. There’s no time to stop to think, to plan, even to daydream about new ideas.
How about scheduling a meeting with yourself? Yes, go on, put it in your diary. Then use the time to think.
A Cardiff business woman I know goes one better. Karen books herself a first class return rail ticket to London. Away from office pressures she uses the journey each way to think and to work on business strategy rather than day-to-day issues, just stopping long enough in London to have lunch.
I expect Karen also works on staff TRAINing strategy on these trips.
