For people living busy and complicated lives, organization is not a matter of disposition but an essentail capability to possess. Let's review the misunderstandings on organization and master easy and simple organizing skills through numerous consulting examples of Korea.
Organization is to control one's own life as the master. As the starting point of all self-development, if you organize the desk, the work is organized and when the work is organized, the life after work can be changed as well. Organization is the very first step to lead the change of the present as the change of the future. Let's learn more about organization, the best habit of loving myself.
The Japanese economist "Ohmae Kenichi", also known as Peter Drucker of Asia, said that the "3 ways to change life" is to change how you use time, to change where you live and to meet new people. How should we organize time, network and space to easily and quickly change life?
There are two things to keep in mind before organizing - "purpose" and "value". Purpose and value are like a compass in organizing and lacking any of the two would not lead to a fulfilling result. It is very simple - remove anything that does not fit the purpose and fill those that improve value. Let's take a closer look.
You need to know only 3 things to start organizing - "empty", "share" and "fill". If you "empty", things will automatically find its position and if your "share", more opportunities will happen. And if you "fill" with necessary things, the true self can be discovered. Practice these three to organize time, network and space. Here, purpose and value will be the compass. Think whether something first the purpose and holds any value.
People who cannot organize save things instead of using. They forget the fact that they purchased something and buy again. But people who organize well are capable of reasonable consumption, proper storage and effective usage. In other words, there exists a flow in organizing. And that flow is the core of space organizing. Let's learn more about the 3-step flow of space organizing.
The heart of space organization is to create the flow of input and output of products. We will look at the 5-step organization skills, applicable in any peace, to enable the flow. If you follow the organization skills, it will help when organizing desks, computer files and documents.
According to the survey conducted at the job portal site Saramin, 72.9% of businessmen are stressed due to relationship issues. Also, according to a report published by the Korea Development Institute, 56.5% of the employed in 2003 to 2007 got their jobs through networking. Networking not only fulfills the holes of oneself but also serve as an essential resource for major life events, such as employment, change of occupation and marriage. Let's learn more about how to manage the existing networks and make new ones.
Managing networks does not mean knowing many people. Rather, it means to know who I need and who needs me. One should be able to acquire opportunity and happiness through these relationships. Networking, thus, makes my life rich and happy. We will look at how to create new networks that I need and how to end networks that steal my energy.
Working overtime is now a necessity, not an option for many businessmen. When asked why, 66.7%of the answers mentioned that there is too much work with too little time. But if analyzed by actually meeting these people, the do not have enough time for work because they are caught with unnecessary tasks. They did not organize but only tried to manage time. Let's learn about organizing time to make our lives more relaxed.
3 Steps to organizing time is to record, manage and combine to manage time in this way, it is recommended to use helpful tools such as time keeping books. Also, it is much more helpful to make it a usual habit to organize time. Let's take a look at helpful habits and tools for time organization.
E-mail users around the world equals about 27% of the population, amounting up to 1.88 billion people. From approximately 2.9 billion e-mail accounts, 10,700 billion messages are sent a year. A tremendous amount of e-mails are sent and received. But how many of these e-mails are actually essential to me? Let's learn more about how to use e-mails that can be convenient tools when used right but "poisonous" at work if misused.
People tend to choose the most ideal period to complete the work and reap the best out of the least investment. But this kind of "procrastination" can bring serious loss at work. If there is anything to decide or to do, it is the wisest decision to handle them immediately. Let's see the details.
Have you heard "no company is successful with many conferences"? One of the most stressful things for businessmen is conferences. Conference is to make the company healthy, but it has become regretful and meaningless, not fulfilling its role and stealing others' time. And the reason is because necessary things for conference have not been organized.
Works we do these days are very complicated. But those complicated works can be easily solved when organized well on a piece of A4 paper. Let's learn more about the various decision making models that help complicated works to be easily organized.
The modern society is an information society where information becomes power. Information that I need can be of great help if collected, but if not properly utilized, the collected information will only become an interruption to my time. Information should be organized as well.
HRI is established by Chung Ju-yung，the first CEO，founder and honorary chairman of Hyundai Group in 1986. HRI is a leading Korean research think tank committed to studying and analyzing the economic and industrial environment as well as reunification economy of Korea. HRI，further，has it’s own businesses such as business consulting， education and training service，and knowledge-content business.
현대경제연구원은 현대그룹의 싱크탱크이자 국내 최고의 민간 연구기관이다. 디지털시대의 흐름에 맞추어 온-오프 혼합으로 연구, 교육, 신사업을 추진하고 있는 국내 유일의 종합지식 연구조직이다. 현대경제연구원은 한국 경제의 경쟁력 제ㅗ라는 국가적 과업이 성취되도록, 시대적 비전을 제시하고 실현 가능한 정책 안을 강구하는데 최대한의 노력을 경주하고 있다.
편집인 이원형은 현대경제연구원에서 연구위원으로 활동하였다. 현재는 맨트립, 전자출판, 경제 인문 사회 분야의 전자책을 제작하고 있다. 일반인들을 위한 경제학 콘텐츠를 제작하고 있다.