Speed It Up: Episode #135 The Japan Business Mastery Show

Speed It Up: Episode #135 (Audio here) (Video here) The Japan Business Mastery Show

Leaders are busy people.?Phones ring, email floods in without mercy, staff want a piece of you, meetings suck the life force out of your day, business social media beckons with its siren song of “look at me, look at me”, imminent deadlines loom.?Consequently, you often look back on the day and are bewildered as to where the time went and become frustrated with how little actually got done.?

?Excluding distractions and focusing on what you need to be doing are learnt skills.?It is astonishing to me how few leaders plan their day.?It seems to be a general lack of ability to self-organise their day.?The first barrier is philosophical – “I don’t want to be locked into a schedule, because mine changes so much throughout the day, there is no point setting priorities which will keep changing”.

?There is a breakthrough technology for that called the pencil.?If your priorities change, then change the order by re-writing to list.?The reality is the basic order of priorities will only ever change a few times a day and not every day, so the alteration of the order is no big deal, so get over it.?The power of setting priorities, in order, is that you can concentrate on the highest value components of your work.?

?The golden rule of leadership time management is “we can’t do everything, but we can do the most important things”.?The most high value tasks are those that only we can do – they are not things we can delegate.?The key is to concentrate our mental energy to be “in the moment” to complete those highest value tasks without being distracted or hindered.?Therefore time must be allocated for the highest value tasks that we have nominated ahead of all the other many tasks.?

?To allocate the time required for the highest value tasks, we need to create block time.?This is cordoned off time, no distractions time, no meetings time, no calls or emails time.?We seize the highest priority work to be done and we throw everything we have at it, uninterrupted and unapologetically. Allocate time in our diaries for block time by diarising a meeting with ourselves that is set in stone. If we don’t do that we will never be able to marshal the time we need for the highest value projects we need to be working on.

?Leaders, let’s stop kidding ourselves - all we have is time and how we spend it determines all.?We have to speed up our work days, so that we can get more done.

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About The Author?

Dr. Greg Story, President Dale Carnegie Training Japan

The bestselling author of “Japan Sales Mastery”, “Japan Business Mastery” and "Japan Presentations Mastery" and his new book "The Eigyo" (The営業), Dr. Greg Story is an international keynote speaker, an executive coach, and a thought leader in the four critical areas for business people: leadership, communication, sales and presentations.?

He publishes daily blogs on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter

Has 6 weekly podcasts:

1.?????Mondays -??The Leadership Japan Series,

2.????Tuesdays – The Presentations Japan Series?

Every second Tuesday - ビジネス達人の教え

3.????Wednesdays - The Sales Japan Series?

4.????Thursdays – The Leadership Japan Series

Also every second Thursday - ビジネスプロポッドキャスト

5.????Fridays - The Japan Business Mastery Show

6.????Saturdays – Japan’s Top Business Interviews

Has 3 weekly TV shows on YouTube:

1.?????Mondays - The Cutting Edge Japan Business Show

Also every Second Thursday - ビジネスプロTV

2.????Fridays – Japan Business Mastery

3.????Saturdays – Japan Top Business Interviews

In the course of his career Dr. Greg Story has moved from the academic world, to consulting, investments, trade representation, international diplomacy, retail banking and people development.

Growing up in Brisbane, Australia he never imagined he would have a Ph.D. in Japanese decision-making, become a 37 year veteran of Japan and run his own company in Tokyo.?

Since 1971, he has been a disciple of traditional Shitoryu Karate (糸東流) and is currently a 6th Dan.?

Bunbu Ryodo (文武両道-both pen & sword) is his mantra and he applies martial art philosophies and strategies to business.