The Value of Seriousness and its undervaluing in American Society: The Challenge of Shinsei

Seriousness is the individual ability to assign value to important things.  Seriousness is the basis for Time Management.  But, what you may ask, does important mean? 

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Learning to do What Works

  Learning to do what works is to learn to have a practical mindset, but it is also to learn to be you.  Learning to be you is one of the most difficult challenges in life.  It is particularly difficult if to be you is to follow values that would normally be considered rational…in saner […]

Customer Service = Business Profitability. © Copyright 2019 by Derek L. Evans—All Rights Reserved.

The Shinsei Method™ is a method of training.  It is derived loosely from the Japanese to mean:  shin, which is principle, being, or mind; and sei, which is life.  It is directed toward business and business managers because it is relatively easy to understand that the primary goal of business is profit and profitability.  When […]

Managing for Value: Mentoring or Leading for Value. Part Two. ©Copyright 2019 by Derek L. Evans—All Rights Reserved.

Mentoring is learning by doing. Mentoring is teaching. Disciplines such as Bushido or any practical endeavor impart a very important lesson that directly pertains to mentoring, learning, competence, and quality. In martial training dedicated students learn after some time that assiduous training leads to a certain level of proficiency in time. The longer the time […]

The Profit Mentality. © Copyright 2019 by Derek L. Evans—All Rights Reserved.

To see training as a means to maintain a high degree proficiency, means to train regularly, often, and indefinitely.  This of course requires discipline, focus, and honest.   These important principles and values are not typically part of the business school curricula, which tends to treat character and value as separate and unrelated to business profitability.  […]

Managerial Mentoring. © Copyright 2019 by Derek L. Evans—All Rights Reserved.

Never has training, mentoring, and apprenticeship been more sorely needed across many industries, but particularly in the outdoor retail sales, online ecommerce sales, telephone customer service and related industries.  A basic level of competence, if it ever existed in business, cannot typically be expected today.  One of the reasons for the deficiency in skill, talent, […]