Word: focusing
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...major-league screw-ups in recent years have sapped the UC’s credibility to the point that every week without a catastrophe still seems a small victory. To its credit, the UC has moved on from losing thousands on attendee-free booze cruises and concerts to focus on what it apparently does best—very little...
...Each of the resident deans, the dean of the freshmen, and the department administrator plays a role in [the freshman experience],” Gingo said. “But since we all have other primary responsibilities, sometimes there wasn’t as much focus on it as we would have liked...
...Borshoff was able to wrap his arm around his back in such a way that he couldn’t get out of being pinned.“Obviously, it was disappointing,” Meltzer said, “but after that my focus shifted to qualifying for the nationals. I just wanted to focus what lay ahead and not what had just occurred.”Meltzer went on to face the same opponent that spoiled his chance at an EIWA title in the third-place bout. The match lasted 11 minutes before Meltzer finally persevered over Borshoff...
...researcher, educator and an evangelist," who helps people weave order into their complex lives. But because Allen would rather help people gain control of their frazzled lives than figure out new ways to make millions off of his ideas, he's still struggling to decide whether to focus on corporate consulting or the world of self-help. And what's the right scale and scope for The David Allen Company? "This could be a $30 to $60 million business," he says, "but I'm personally not that ambitious...
That's the title of productivity guru David Allen's pithy 2001 treatise on working efficiently, which continues to resonate in this decade's overworked, overwhelmed, overteched workplace. Allen hasn't just sold 500,000 copies of his book. He has preached his message of focus, discipline and creativity everywhere from Sony and Novartis to the World Bank and the U.S. Air Force. He counsels swamped chief executives on coping with information overload. He ministers to some clients with an intensive, two-day, $6,000 private session in which he and his team organize their lives from top to bottom...