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How to Lead Brilliant Work in a Busy World

Shawn Vanderhoven

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English
Torva
11 August 2026
The development expert behind some of the world's most successful leaders reveals how to unlock your team's ability to focus on the things that matter.

Unlock your team's highest potential with this proven counterintuitive approach to productivity.

In today's hyper-paced world, workers face relentless demands, endless distractions and intense pressure to deliver more with fewer resources and in less time. Overwhelmed with an endless stream of tasks and the constant ping of emails, modern teams are buried in chaos, while managers unintentionally scatter employees' efforts with unclear priorities and the pressure to overcommit.

Now, speaker and consultant Shawn Vanderhoven turns conventional thinking about productivity and leadership on its head. Drawing from the latest research and real-world insights from top-performing teams at industry giants like Amazon, Google and LinkedIn, Vanderhoven reveals that the most effective leaders don't chase action for action's sake.

Instead, they pause.

Here, we learn how to effectively filter out all the noise - from magnifying what matters most by identifying truly urgent tasks, to buffering out busy through reducing common distractions like excessive emails - so your team can finally focus on the right priorities at the right time.

Sometimes the fastest way forward starts with a pause.
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Imprint:   Torva
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 153mm,  Spine: 40mm
Weight:   700g
ISBN:   9781911709664
ISBN 10:   1911709666
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Shawn Vanderhoven is a partner for The Wiseman Group, a thought leadership and consulting firm working with many of the biggest and brightest companies in the S&P, focusing on developing a leader's ability to fully utilise their people's talent. Shawn has worked with senior management, learning and development, and human resources of hundreds of today's leading domestic and global companies, including Amazon, Alphabet, Adobe, Capital One, Deloitte, McKinsey and Salesforce to build leadership development strategies.

Reviews for Pause: How to Lead Brilliant Work in a Busy World

You can't get your team's attention if you yourself are driven to distraction. Vanderhoven gives you the tools you need to focus on the things that matter. Essential! * Kim Scott, author of best selling books Radical Candor and Radical Respect * I’ve spent years writing about the power of questions. But for good questions to make a difference, there needs to be space to hear them. This is the book you need to create that space. * Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit, the best-selling coaching book * This book isn't just a theory. Shawn did the work to find out what leaders are doing to lead great work instead of driving teams to burnout. * Liz Wiseman, author of best-selling books Multipliers and Impact Players *


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