Business Genius

UP! YOUR FOCUS

The first Block and Limitation to Business Genius is fruitless focus.

Scattergun focus, for example, is often fruitless because there’s no clear target.

(That’s why Andrew Carnegie – the famous steel billionaire – once said ‘a man should never scatter his shot’.)

Split focus, is often fruitless, too, because there are too many targets.

(That’s why Tony Schwartz – the Harvard academic – highlights ‘the magic of doing one thing at a time’ and also having a ‘not-to-do list’.)

Septic focus, however, is, perhaps, the most fruitless of all because it means we hit the target, but end up missing the point!

(That’s why Sir Ken Robinson – the well-known creativity expert – stresses the importance of not viewing a situation ‘in isolation ...