I write today in praise of focus.
One of the biggest enemies of any career, project, strategy, what have you, is a lack of focus. Apple AAPL 0.05% under Steve Jobs was the epitome of focus. The company did only a few things at a time, said no to more things than it said yes to (current CEO Tim Cook frequently references this dictum), and even tried mightily to restrict what individual employees focused on. It looked for specialists not generalists and often reminded its people to mind their own business.
