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Your ego can serve to keep your momentum moving forward. It can keep you vibrant and productive. It can keep your focus where it should be, which is on your work.

Sometimes people spend too much time focusing on problems instead of focusing on opportunities.

…you can’t be following someone else’s path. That means you’d better spend some time focusing yourself on your own path and your own purpose.

Creating and employing a discipline of focus is a good way to avoid spending more time than necessary on any one thing.

…if there is one skill that stands out [in successful CEOs], it’s the ability to focus and make the best move when there are no good moves.

Focus on where you are going rather than on what you hope to avoid.

…the need for a secure retirement income will increasingly focus people’s minds on the future value of the investment. Corporations… have to pay attention to both their short-term business results and their long-term-performance, as providers of retirement benefits.

With respect to the definition of business purpose and mission, there is only one such focus, one starting point. It is the customer. The customer defines the business.

…organization structure has to be impersonal and task focused. Otherwise it is impossible to have continuity and to have people succeed each other.

…what makes communication effective at the workplace is that they are focused on something outside the person. They have to focus on a common task and on a common challenge. They have to be focused on the work.