Chapter 2 "Strategy of the Week" for Entrepreneurs

Life is not equal, but time is equal to everyone.Japanese entrepreneurs use strategies to plan their lives for a week. How do they use their time and plan each day?Do you go through the same rhythm seven days a week? Japan's "Commander Magazine" reported that many successful entrepreneurs in Japan "strategically" use every day of the week. For most people, the weekend is a day of rest, but this is not the case for the president of GMO, an Internet service company, Masatoshi Kumagai. He believes that "Saturday is the time to organize the previous week, and Sunday is the time to prepare for the next week."

Every Sunday after he gets up at six o’clock in the morning, he goes to his study to sort out his notepads. Most people only use notepads for “records” or “plans”. Kumagai is different. He has three, one is “Dream Notebook” for Write what you want to do in the future, the second is the "action notebook", which is used to manage plans and activities, and the third is the "thinking notebook" that organizes all kinds of thoughts. Kumagai believes that human beings are born unequal, but there are two things that are equally owned, one is time and the other is opportunity.The three notebooks are the tools that help him make the most of his time and opportunities.

Michiyuki Takehisa, president of the business management company Infopreneurs Japan, positioned Monday as a "preparation day" to prepare and plan for what he wants to do in a week, three months, or even three years. At seven o'clock in the morning, the company's cadre candidates drove to pick him up. During the one-hour drive, they not only discussed various scheduled plans, but also taught him the "Emperor Learning" with rich leadership experience. The two hours from 7:00 to 9:00 in the evening is the charging time for Dao Xing. He mainly focuses on business books, reads three to five books a week, and reads an average of ten books a month. Such entrepreneurs" are "reading through" all relevant books.

Noboru Koyama, the president of Musashino, which mainly rents out office supplies, has dinner with cadres and employees at an izakaya every Tuesday.However, this does not end with eating and drinking. Attending cadres must report business results and subordinates' work status within a limited time, and finally there will be "tasks" that must be completed before the next dinner. At the dinner party on Tuesday, everyone encouraged and praised each other, which was "the time to motivate".It is also an important "strategic meeting", Koyama pointed out, "the matters that are decided will start to be implemented the next morning."

"Wednesday OFF" is the mantra of Sina Goshi, the president of LAWSON, Japan's second largest supermarket chain.He just took over the position of president three years ago, desperately absorbing new business knowledge, participating in cross-industry study sessions after get off work, and whenever he has a new idea, even late at night, he will call the cadres, "We can learn to do this...", Twelve to fourteen interviews can be received every day.Slowly he discovered that a real business leader should not be busy running around, but should "set medium and long-term goals and then implement them".So he began to read some philosophical and religious books, and cultivated the habit of not only looking at the surface, but also insight into the depth of things. "Wednesday OFF" is also his new experience. On Wednesday, Sina arrives at the company very late, and he doesn't even go to the company. He often goes to a Japanese tea house to drink tea and think quietly. He also goes to the underground street of a department store to observe the consumption of housewives and students. Behavior.

In the rapidly changing ultra-commercial world, Sina believes it is necessary to "stop and think carefully" in the middle of a week. Suzuki Yasuhiro, the president of 7andy, the initiator of the business model of "order books online and pick them up from supermarkets", every Thursday, he finishes his work in the company in the morning and goes out in the afternoon to communicate with all kinds of people Contact, often directly seek advice from entrepreneurs or senior executives in their 60s and 70s. He believes that "reading books can only get technology, and talking with people can absorb real knowledge." Thursday is a day for him to recharge and replenish .

Hiroaki Koshita, the president of the famous brand clothing store "RESTIR Tokyo", spends most of the first half of the week, from Monday to Wednesday, on internal meetings, and actively participates in various receptions on Thursday and Friday, in order to "squeeze out" to participate During the reception, he usually uses his mobile phone to send and receive text messages. The advantage is that he can also handle business during mobile time. As long as it can "expand contacts and open up business opportunities", he will definitely attend, exchange business cards with the attendees enthusiastically, carefully observe everyone's clothing, and of course he will not forget to introduce his clothing store and discover potential customers.

Koyama Kaorudo, a writer who is busy writing TV and radio scripts on weekdays, often travels on Saturdays and Sundays, the near ones include suburban hot springs and resort centers, and the far ones include overseas travel, such as taking a direct flight to Paris at night and flying in the morning Arrive in Paris, go to the restaurant you want to have a big meal, and then take the evening flight back to Japan. Las Vegas, the 24-hour city that never sleeps, can go back and forth on the same day without having to stay. "With a substantial vacation, you can face another new week with vigour," Xiao Shan believes.The Japanese salaried class who cannot flexibly use working hours choose various "outside study sessions" held regularly. "Nikkei Plus One" pointed out that by interacting with people from different industries, you can acquire new knowledge, expand your scope of thinking and interpersonal relationships.

Seven days a week, in fact, can have different rhythms, it depends on how you use your brain to arrange.