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Doing Business With Extra Speed

Guest post by: Enrico Varella

Article Overview: Transitions – the brief break between the swim and ride, or ride and run – can save us time if we eliminate wasteful actions.

Doing Business With Extra Speed

My triathlon coach, ‘Fox’ has sold me on this idea for a long time. We can get extra speed from observing a few key points during a race. This ‘extra’ during the Transition period can translate into a podium placing, and a sense of achievement.

Transitions – the brief break between the swim and ride, or ride and run – can save us time if we eliminate wasteful actions.

For instance, by using elastic laces, we can simply slip on our socks and shoes with ease and be out on the running route within a minute. If we tie our laces, it may require more time to add that second knot (as security). When you hook on your cycling shoes on the pedals, you need merely to push your bike faster to the mounting-line, and beyond, and do a trained ‘flying mount’. This will ensure little loss in momentum and reduce ‘down-time’ due to delays and hesitation.

If we lean forward in your running posture, and increase your cadence, you can run faster. If we pace ourselves correctly, we can run faster without suffering the imminent ‘fatigue’ that high intensity competition presents.

Today, business occurs at the speed of thought (with a nod towards Bill Gates’s book). As quickly as ideas pop up, sometimes with increasing ferocity, we need to act quickly on some of them. Ideas, unprocessed and unattended, can lead to disappointment and disenchantment when somebody succeeds before we do with them. It is important to lead with our minds and methods.

Both effectiveness and efficiency matter in business; faster and better is now the norm. How do you make the shift from one business deal to another? Do you include time wasters in your business dealings? How do you act when you make transactions? Sometimes, slow is fast. Other times fast can be faster.

Business Leadership Lessons: How do you speed things up when boredom sets in? How do you expedite matters of importance? How do you accelerate a process without compromising safety, sensibility or sensitivity?

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