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Focus

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…focus on and optimize for the fast flow of safe value end to end with long-lived value streams, long-lived products, long-lived teams, and funding the flow of value.

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A focus only on tooling will have minimal improvement on outcomes if processes, the system of work, and behavioral norms, how people are organized and incentivized, are not changing.

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Regardless of what is being measured, measure the work not the worker and focus on the trend over time rather than the absolute, as contexts vary.

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A focus on output rather than outcome remains common… Outputs are always much easier to define, monitor, and track than outcomes.

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…a focus on outcomes, with regular feedback loops, builds learning into an everyday activity, as people reflect on how to best achieve the outcomes, for unique work in a rapidly changing environment.

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Anybody can log in hours and keep busy during the work day, but it takes real focus and commitment to stay actively productive throughout the day.

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Competent people focus on and get results. Incompetents don’t.

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Good executives focus on opportunities rather than problems.

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Effective executives focus on outward contribution.

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The great majority of executives tend to focus downward. They are occupied with efforts rather than with results.

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