#Focus
How to stay excited about your business
A motivational psychology expert suggests strategies to put into play once your initial enthusiasm about your startup starts to waver.
4 strategies to sharpen your focus
Simple tips to help you work with your strengths, downplay your weaknesses and improve your focus and productivity.
Feeling sidetracked? 10 biggest time-wasters
If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you’ve got to have a laser-like focus, something that’s harder to do now than ever before.
4 demotivators that will cost you
Keeping everyone on your team focused and motivated is not easy, especially if you fall into one or more of these common traps.
7 steps to regaining your focus
If you’re prone to distraction, these techniques can help you refocus in as little as 60 seconds.
Combating the top 10 small business time wasters
In a five-part article series, we look at the 10 most common ways small business owners waste valuable time and offer some solutions for combating this damaging behaviour. Part one looks at tackling shifting priorities and interruptions.
Why we never have time to implement strategy
You go away with your senior management team, spend two days with an external facilitator and come back with what you think is a great strategy.
How do you develop and maintain your credibility?
If you’re a business owner or manager, your business’ credibility relies hugely on your personal reputation, so it’s vital to make it an important focus in running your business.
Is it time you fired your marketing team?
I see so many marketing consultants giving advice to small business owners that are focused purely on marketing tactics, without any thought to marketing strategy.
What business are you really in?
It’s not a new question but it’s an important one to ask. Theodore Levitt wrote an article for Harvard Business Review in 1960 entitled “Marketing Myopia”, where he encouraged businesses to switch their focus from selling to meeting customer needs. He asked an important question to the railroad industry: What business are you really in? Railroads or transportation?
Finding Focus…
I’ve just had one of those days where, no matter what I do, I keep losing focus. This week I’ve been travelling a fair bit, but sometimes I think your brain just doesn’t appreciate being forced to look at a computer screen for hours on end. Here are a few things that work for me and help keep me on the task at hand ― hopefully you will add a few of your own ideas as well.