出版社：Regent University School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship
摘要：We live in a world that seems to run on one speed, fast-forward. Everyday leaders and followers feel the effects of having too much to do and not enough time in which to do it. At work, in our communities, and in our families we are pressed from every side to accomplish, acquire, and provide more and more as time races by. Stretched beyond ourselves in every imaginable dimension of human existence, we race against our own internal clocks, trading our circadian rhythms for power breakfasts, working lunches, and ―express‖ 30-minute, full-body workouts. There is no time to waste so we keep pushing ourselves toward the next achievement, the next conquest, the next important ―thing,‖ expecting—no demanding-- results now. Eventually, we may become aware, however vaguely, of changes in our personalities including impatience with ourselves and others but, lacking a quick explanation for the changes, dismiss those insights by saying something like, ―I‘m just not myself lately‖ or ―If only I had a little more time…‖ Impatience makes us do strange things like slip into the express check-out lane with more than 10 items in our shopping cart or drive along like we don‘t realize our lane will end when we drive that route everyday then merge in at the last minute, cutting someone off who had been in line
