when you have a meeting or do your stuff, Are you sure that you set crystal-clear agenda for them.
it's has spread too broadly in japan that the longer the time of a meeting or do your stuffs with tons of time, the more you tend to think you are in charge of the stuffs.
JUST pay much more attention to the OUTCOMES from the deed.
TIME is money. Even a kid knows this proverb.
Dont waste your really really precious time.