Book Titles

Focus
The Hidden Driver of Excellence

By Daniel Goleman

Year Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-211486-0
Categories: Excellence, Focus, Leadership

150 Quotes Found

Quote Image Quote Page Number

Focus:

Coming up with a radically innovative strategy demands perceiving a novel position, one your competitors do not see.

214

Focus:

Winning tactics are available to everyone, yet are overlooked by all but a few.

214

Focus:

Innovations rearrange our sense of what’s possible.

217

Focus:

An organization that focuses inwardly may execute superbly. But if it has not attuned to the larger world in which it operates, that execution may end up in the service of a failed strategy.

218

Focus:

The mind’s executive, the arbiter of where our focus goes, manages both the concentration that exploitation requires and the open focus that exploration demands.

218

Focus:

…every company will face a point when it will have to change dramatically to survive, let alone raise its performance. ‘Miss the moment, … and you start to decline.’

219

Focus:

…the stress of overload, sleeplessness, and turning to substances that calm you down are all too prevalent among those in high-demand jobs.

220

Focus:

The sweet spot for decisions… comes not just from being a domain expert, but also from having high self-awareness.

223

Focus:

That subtle stirring – This feels right – sets our direction even before we can put that decision into words.

223

Focus:

There’s a strong case that leaders need the full range of inner, other, and outer focus to excel – and that a weakness in any one of them can throw a leader off balance.

224