The Slow Fix
The Author
by Carl Honoré
Reading club session: 22 February 2016
In the tradition of his internationally bestselling In Praise of Slow, and drawing on examples from the most progressive and successful leaders in business, politics, science and society, Carl Honoré brilliantly illuminates why the best way to face our problems might just be to take our time.
If the high-flying fighter pilots of the RAF can own up to their mistakes, why can't the rest of us? Toyota was fantastically good at exposing its failings and correcting them, until it stopped, setting the company up for one of the most spectacular falls from grace in the history of the auto industry. BP couldn't bring itself to apologize for its catastrophic oil spill until the entire Gulf Coast of the United States was bearing the brunt of its technological shortcomings.
Addicted as we might be to the quick fix--pills, crash diets or just diverting attention from things about to go wrong--the quick fix never really works. Trying to solve problems in a hurry, sticking on a plaster when surgery is needed, might deliver temporary relief, but only at the price of storing up worse trouble for later. For those looking for a fix that sticks, The Slow Fix will help us produce solutions in life and work that endure.
Carl Honoré (born 1967 in Scotland) is a Canadian journalist who wrote the internationally best-selling book In Praise of Slowness: How A Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed (2004) about the Slow Movement.
In 2008, he came out with a new book, Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting,[1] which promotes a more relaxed and more hands-off technique for raising and educating children: Slow parenting.
Honoré was born in Scotland, but considers Edmonton his hometown. After he graduated from Edinburgh University with degrees in History and Italian, he worked with street children in Brazil, which inspired him to take up journalism. Since 1991, he has reported from all over Europe and South America, spending three years as a correspondent in Buenos Aires. He currently works and lives in London with his wife and their two children.
Find out more about the author here.