As managers we always want to find ways to use our manager skills to get more things done.  

Our to-do lists just seem to keep getting longer and people are always  asking us to accomplish more things in less time. Our bosses are willing  to send us to manager training where we’ll learn how to look like we  are working hard even if we may not be producing as much as we should  be. Managers need to be careful and stop confusing productivity with getting results.  

Perhaps what we really should be doing is looking at how we can use  “slowness” to do a better job of accomplishing what we need to get done.