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Practice the pause before reactin

April 1, 2026  ·  1 min read

Practice the pause before reacting — thirty seconds to collect your thought often produces a far more useful reply and preserves relationships. Use that pause to ask a clarifying question and you’ll often find the problem was smaller than it seemed. Pausing becomes a leadership superpower the more you do it.

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