Adrian Shepherd

Adrian Shepherd started his career as an ESL teacher in Japan, but today focuses on consulting with individuals and companies on productivity. His background in education helped him develop The One-Bite Time Management System (TMS), a revolutionary new system based entirely around simplicity: small bites that people can digest easily. Adrian Shepherd is based in Osaka, Japan. Adrian is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine.

CEO Advisory

Henry Ford’s Most Powerful Time Management Secret

CEO AdvisoryAdrian Shepherd

Most CEOs have their share of battle scars. They’ve succeeded and they’re failed. I can relate. I’m at an age in my life where I’ve been burned too many times and I no longer want to, nor have the time to waste. That’s why I choose to only do business...

Lifestyle and Travel

How a Single Change Transformed Mazda’s Image and Changed an Entire Industry?

Lifestyle and TravelAdrian Shepherd

What’s in a color? Turns out more than we realized. It’s something I learned a few years ago, and I’ve seen it change an entire industry in a very short period. Let me set the stage. Back in 2012 my Subaru Forester was on its last legs. My family and...

CEO Agenda

Here Are The 6 Ps Of Productivity

CEO AgendaAdrian Shepherd

Ideas often come when we’re least expecting them. Penicillin was discovered by Sir Alexander when he noticed that a discarded contaminated Petri dish contained a mold that dissolved all the bacteria around it. Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays while was investigating the properties of cathodic ray tunes. Tony Robbins came up...

CEO Agenda

The Biggest Billion Dollar Business Blunders

CEO AgendaAdrian Shepherd

Mistakes are a part of life. Even the most successful companies have their fair share of failures. Apple’s Palm Pilot never got off the ground. Google closed its Google Hangouts, and most people have never even heard of Toyota’s Mirai. Mistakes go part and parcel with success. To expand their...

CEO Agenda

The 12 Domains of Productivity and What CEOs Need to Know

CEO AgendaAdrian Shepherd

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is a classic. For those who haven’t read it or aren’t familiar with it, it’s essentially the distillation of the wisdom of 500 millionaires at the time – Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. Hill came up with 13 principles that...

Education and Career

How To Double Your Team’s Productivity

Education and CareerAdrian Shepherd

Probably the most overused expression in business is “time is money.” Everyone knows that, yet why is it so few organizations and individuals understand how to get the most out of their time. From CEOs all the way down, time is the one resource we all have in common and...

CEO Advisory

Business Books CEOs Should Reread in 2019

CEO AdvisoryAdrian Shepherd

Every year, on January 1st, people all over the world make new year’s resolutions - to lose weight, to spend more time with their family, to exercise more, to read more. Essentially stuff we’d like to do more or less of. It’s the perfect time to make lists. Each year...

Stats Gate

Double Your Reading Speed Quickly And Easily With These Five Powerful Strategies

Stats GateAdrian Shepherd

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. Wise words from President Harry Truman. From experience, I’ve found this to be true. Walk into any CEO’s office and just take a look at the books he has on his shelves. The books tell a story and it’ll come...

Stats Gate

The Incredible Power of the Productivity Pyramid

Stats GateAdrian Shepherd

In dealing with clients, both corporate and individuals, I find myself constantly repeating one word – simplify. It’s amazing just how people and especially businesses complicate things. One summer during my college years, I had the privilege of having an internship at FedEx, a name synonymous with speed. It was...

Education and Career

The Four Fastest Ways to Boost Productivity and Reduce Stress

Education and CareerAdrian Shepherd

You might think that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies have got it all figured out. After all, they are in charge of some of the biggest companies in the world. But I’ll let you in on a little secret, even they sometimes struggle when it comes to the concepts of...

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Adrian Shepherd

Henry Ford’s Most Powerful Time Management Secret

How a Single Change Transformed Mazda’s Image and Changed an Entire Industry?

Here Are The 6 Ps Of Productivity

The Biggest Billion Dollar Business Blunders

The 12 Domains of Productivity and What CEOs Need to Know

How To Double Your Team’s Productivity

Business Books CEOs Should Reread in 2019

Double Your Reading Speed Quickly And Easily With These Five Powerful Strategies

The Incredible Power of the Productivity Pyramid

The Four Fastest Ways to Boost Productivity and Reduce Stress

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