Responding or Reacting: How Do You Know?

Reacting can become addictive and inappropriate; can you ignore your cell phone for an hour?

With the increased speed of business, primarily due to our always-on connectivity, we have incrementally become far more reactive than responsive to events.  Reactiveness may be appropriate in certain situations, but certainly not all of them.  It can be enlightening to reflect on how you handle situations on a daily basis to determine if you have fallen into the reaction trap.