Higher education doesn't fail because it lacks intelligence, resources, or plans. It fails because institutions become psychologically incapable of adapting. That is the argument at the heart of A Case of the Slows, the follow-up to Robert "Skip" Myers's Stop Waiting for Saviors. Drawing on Lincoln's famous verdict on General George McClellan -- a commander so cautious he could never quite bring himself to act -- Myers names the condition that quietly stalls colleges and universities today: the wait for one more report, one more forecast, one more assurance of certainty before moving. Through the lives of Grant, Sherman, Churchill, Marshall, and Shackleton, Myers builds a psychology of adaptation for presidents and governing boards navigating disruption, declining enrollment, financial pressure, and institutional anxiety. Each chapter pairs a historical case with a practical diagnostic, showing exactly what the president's role and the board's role look like when an institution chooses to keep moving instead of waiting for rescue. Drawing on more than four decades leading and advising nearly one hundred governing boards and presidents, Myers offers not another strategic playbook, but a framework for adaptive governance -- leadership systems built to learn, adjust, and endure. For trustees, presidents, and anyone responsible for steering an institution through uncertainty, this is a clear-eyed, field-tested guide to recognizing your own case of the slows -- before it becomes terminal.