{"id":152,"date":"2010-03-15T17:20:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/\/salesarchive\/permalink\/2010\/3\/15\/132024.html"},"modified":"2010-03-15T17:20:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:20:24","slug":"busy-in-not-a-good-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/busy-in-not-a-good-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy in Not a Good Word"},"content":{"rendered":"

Busy Is Not A Good Word<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/strong>          <\/span><\/strong>Paul Orfalea, founder of the Kinko’s chain of copy stores, said,<\/span> <\/span><\/strong>"Busy is not a good word. It’s not a good excuse. Come on, it’s common sense. Get it done; delegate it.”<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
          Mr. Orfalea, nicknamed "Kinko" because of his curly red hair, has seen the chain he founded grow to over 1,100 locations worldwide. He says,<\/span>“I never aimed for busy-ness at Kinko’s. The workers in the front lines are my customers. I need to keep them happy. And the best way to take care of your customers is to take care of your front line workers. I always believe that a manager’s first responsibility is to their workers." <\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
          I often meet multi-tasking managers who confuse ‘busy’ with ‘productive’ and blame their frantic activity level for not being able to manage their most important customers…their staffs!<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
          The reality is, we have the tools today to allow us to multi-task without becoming so busy that we fail to motivate our people. <\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
          Managers who once had secretaries typing and mailing their correspondence, and who had to search through cumbersome rolodexes to find contact information can now multi-task without missing a beat thanks to email, computers, the internet, hand-held mobile devices<\/span> and more. <\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
          The Kinko’s founder was<\/font><\/span>quick to grasp the difference between working hard and working smart. He knew that efficiency and doing things right was often not as important as effectiveness – doing the right things.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
          A harried ‘busy’ manager can end up ‘working’ 12 hours a day, destroying their life’s balance and rendering them less effective in business.<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
          Entrepreneurial and managerial productivity today is not measured in hours or tasks, but in results. And it is the motivated staff that actually produces those end results. <\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
          Two old clichés can help you stay focused on your staff to be more productive;<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
1.) You can be as successful as you want to be if you are willing to let others take the credit.<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
2.) You can get whatever you want if you simply help enough others get what they want. <\/font><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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