Comments on: Focus focus focus http://lindabonanno.com/2009/11/19/focus-focus-focus/ Personal & Intellectual Development Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:06:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: winethinker http://lindabonanno.com/2009/11/19/focus-focus-focus/#comment-90 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:54:23 +0000 http://winethinker.com/?p=455#comment-90 Tim,

Yes! I think you’ve hit the nail on the head.

#1 & #2 are two sides of the same coin I’d call them either living in the future or the past rather than the present.

#3 is the inability to set a clear direction possibly because of the inability to pay enough attention to an idea to determine if it is worth it.

#4 – well, we all have met those people at some point. They are out there and you just have to figure them out before it is too late!

]]> By: Timmy http://lindabonanno.com/2009/11/19/focus-focus-focus/#comment-89 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:25:00 +0000 http://winethinker.com/?p=455#comment-89 I have found lack of focus can have 4 causes.
1. Near sightedness -inability to see long term future trends because of focus on legacy.
2. Far sightedness -inability to see the need to support legacy revenue generators because of too much attention on the future.
3. astigmatism -inability to see/define detail in either current or future market trends resulting in blurry plans blurry requirements and a blurry vision of where the revenue will be or how to get it.
4. Anal Blindness-inability to see a market because your head is up your ass.

]]> By: themadpeacock http://lindabonanno.com/2009/11/19/focus-focus-focus/#comment-87 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:59:36 +0000 http://winethinker.com/?p=455#comment-87 Thanks for your insight; I totally agree that focus is key. Small companies should be passionate about what they do, focused on it and excel at it if they want to have any chance at succeeding.

In my example (and to your point) I think the focus was just in the wrong place.. The founder was focused on the automotive industry but the company was founded on morphing research, we had no particular domain knowledge in automotive design.

Our core; where our passion was and our focus should have been, was morph modeling.

Companies should focus on their core; the thing that they are passionate about and be flexible about the rest as markets evolve and opportunities present themselves.

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