Business Review - The Status Trap

AS THE WESTERN CULTURE'S DEDICATION TO WORK AND BUSYNESS PERSISTS, DORIE CLARK, WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR, UNRAVELS THE HIDDEN STRUGGLES BEHIND THE COMPLICATED SURFACE OF BEING BUSY.

Whenever I was reaching out to a friend asking them, Hey, how's it going? The answer was “I’m so busy…wish I had a minute to breath, I wish I had a minute to think”

So there are really three key reasons why ‘we're so busy’ and it's not the meetings or the emails… those are the symptoms rather than the causes.

I came across some very interesting studies done by Sylvia Beza that were talking about the fact that especially in American life, when you meet someone the starter question is what do you do? It is about your work and about your professional identity.

A second reason is it's a lot easier to just put your head down and keep doing the same thing you were doing rather than step back and ask questions about whether you are doing the right thing.

And a third reason that comes up is that sometimes we really just want to numb ourselves out.

CLARK SHARED THAT A STUDY REVEALED 97% OF SENIOR LEADERS BELIEVED LONG-TERM STRATEGIC THINKING IS KEY TO SUCCESS. YET, 96% OF THESE SAME LEADERS CLAIM THEY DON'T HAVE TIME FOR STRATEGIC THINKING.

In order to have the space to do strategic thinking take a step back and create more white space in your calendar. Does every meeting that's on here actually need to be on here? Can the half hour meetings be 15 minutes, and can the hour meetings now be 30?

THE BUSINEES REVIEW IS A PRODUCTION OF LIVINGSTON AND MCKAY AND THE HANKAMER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AT BAYLOR UNIVERSITY.

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