Stop Rushing About: Episode #67 The Japan Business Mastery Show

Stop Rushing About: Episode #67 (Audio here for multi-taskers!!) The Japan Business Mastery Show

Is speed expensive?  Constant hustling can lead to large and small errors of judgment.  We get so caught up in living 24/7 lifestyles that we start missing big pieces of the success puzzle.  People are the key to most businesses, but look at how we treat them.  We hit the panic button on a piece of work and make everyone jump through hoops to make sure the deadline is met.  We either end the sentence for the person we are speaking with or we cut them off and lunge in with our own preferred words and ideas.

Doing more, faster with less, we are constantly hustling to gain time.  The process becomes addictive.  The unrelenting daily email tsunami pushes us to gain extra time - all the time.  Our “contemplative self” is subsumed by the “mad rush us”, leaping around like a lunatic.  

Imagine if every interaction you have with others, where you are focused on hustling for your personal gain, came back to haunt you.  How would this change your behavior?  You would definitely take more care about the people around you, how you spoke with others and your general interactions with humanity.  You would be more considerate of others.

The slow food movement was a reaction to the impersonalisation of the food service industry.  We need a slow business movement to do the same thing in the way we run our businesses.  Contemplation is vaporizing as we constantly hustle.  Who we really are and what we actually stand for in our value system is getting bent out of shape.  

So if you find yourself hustling like mad, stop and ask yourself, what is the cost of all this speed? What am I actually doing with all of these contraband minutes?  Unleash the contemplative you instead and practice tuning yourself into other people.  This is the universal, timeless, key business success skill – our ability to do well in our engagement with others and we are in danger of losing it

Action Steps:

1. Develop more self awareness
2. Give people your 100% attention when you engage with them
3. Prioritise contemplation
4. Make haste slowly

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o   The self-motivated are inspired. 

o   Inspired staff grow your business 

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About The Author 

Dr. Greg Story, President Dale Carnegie Training Japan

The bestselling author of “Japan Sales Mastery”, and “Japan Business Mastery” 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 35 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.