Book Club Discussion Guide

It has never been harder to scale focus. Sophisticated apps and digital tools are designed to capture your team’s attention, while meetings, messages, and shifting priorities pull it from the work that matters. As a leader, your job is to pay attention to your team’s attention. Your team doesn’t need you to master all twelve Pauses, but they will need you to figure out the ones they do. As you read Pause together, use these questions to identify what is stealing focus and which Pauses will help your team do its best work.

Black-and-white pit stop illustration for Pause: How to Lead Brilliant Work in a Busy World by Shawn Vanderhoven with Anne Vanderhoven, showing a race crew fine-tuning a car for better performance.

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