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Nikkei Business Associé

October 04, 2005 Issue

FEATURE 1 Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Behavioral Habits of People Who Always Accomplish their Goals in a Cool, Collected Manner Is There Any Waste in Your Behavior? -The results of a questionnaire survey of 572 businesspeople about behavioral habits: 30% say they waste more than one hour every day - A thorough check by a “Hatchet Man” of an “incompetent” businessperson’s behavior during a single week - Self-assessment of your time management - Time management can be achieved by accumulating reasonable behaviors Joanna Sook Ja Park: president, Appassionata, Inc. - Is there something wrong with the Japanese method of time management? Bunshu Sou: Chairman & CEO, Softbrain Co., Ltd. - Creating an atmosphere in which everyone can say, “I’m sorry to be leaving early” Hidetoshi Shibata: Senior Engineer, Hitachi, Ltd. Time Allocation Techniques that Never Fail - A color-coded schedule to let you see at a glance how your work is balanced Tomoyuki Suzuki: manager in charge of corporate planning, MI Associates - Making active use of “bits and pieces of time” that would normally be wasted Yuko Kawamoto: Professor, Graduate School of Finance, Accounting & Law, Waseda University - Be a good judge of character, anticipate other people’s reactions, and put together and use pieces of spare time when necessary Kozo Nagao: Managing Consultant, Corporate Directions, Inc. How to Use the Days of the Week and Time Periods Effectively for the Purpose of Improving Your Skills - I maintain the same rhythm in the morning and improve my skills at night and on holidays Takehiro Yamamoto: Finance and Accounting Department, Kirin Brewery Co., Ltd. - We revolutionized the bar-code system by working on Saturdays and Sundays while successfully juggling two jobs “My Three Behavioral Habits” by “Fast-Track” Business Leaders Masakatsu Saito: President, kabu.com Securities Co., Ltd. - Leading an elite corps by making quick decisions, taking prompt action, and making “unreasonable” demands Masahiro Ito: CEO, Yappa Corporation - You should act while monitoring your own physical and mental rhythms Hiroshi Rinno: President and CEO, Credit Saison Co., Ltd. - You can reverse the tide dramatically if you have an attitude of invincibility and intelligent sensitivity Techniques for Gathering and Allocating Team Members in an Optimal Way, Which Allow the Team to Accomplish Its Job IBM Japan, Ltd.: The “on-demand work style” to optimize efficiency and speed The baseball team at Kaisei Senior High School in Tokyo: a highly-efficient training method of only three hours of practice a week that enabled the prestigious school’s team to advance to the final 16 at the Baseball Summer Tournamentof All High Schools in 2005 Interview with Rie Hasegawa - If you concentrate on every minute and every second of your practice, you can become stronger while enjoying it

SKILL UP

Business Management as a Job, by Tadashi Yanai, Chairman & CEO, Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. 

 “Should I put up with a senior colleague’s slow pace?”