{"id":7434,"date":"2010-04-20T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=7434"},"modified":"2010-04-20T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T14:16:08","slug":"hurry-up-and-slow-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2010\/04\/hurry-up-and-slow-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurry up and slow down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As secretary of Yale University in the 1990s, Sheila Wellington often negotiated with city officials in New Haven, Conn., home to the prestigious school.<\/p>\n<p>One item they tangled over was the fate of a couple of campus streets. Yale wanted to close the streets to traffic; the city did not. Every time Wellington raised the issue, the response was No.<\/p>\n<p>But that all changed quickly.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/nance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7435\" title=\"nance\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/nance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Don\u2019t be afraid to take time before responding to something someone says, does, or writes, advises <strong>Nance Guilmartin<\/strong>, a fellow at \u2019s Center for Leadership and author of \u201cThe Power of Pause,\u201d (Jossey-Bass, 2009).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn tough situations, when your intuition can be short-circuited by the demand for instant answers, you can, and to be truly effective, you must,\u201d pause and think twice, she says.<\/p>\n<p>Read: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/pdf\/printapril2010\/hurry-up-and-slow-down.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Hurry up and slow down<\/a>,\u201c an article from Philly.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As secretary of Yale University in the 1990s, Sheila Wellington often negotiated with city officials in New Haven, Conn., home to the prestigious school. One item they tangled over was the fate of a couple of campus streets. Yale wanted to close the streets to traffic; the city did not. Every time Wellington raised the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[375,381,1968,2428],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}