1. The document discusses the importance of focus on personal, organizational, and strategic levels.
2. It provides examples of how to achieve focus personally through time blocking, limiting distractions, and identifying highest value activities.
3. Organizationally, it recommends tactics like using OKRs, embracing constraints, and focusing on decisions rather than execution.
4. Strategically, it suggests using frameworks like Wardley Maps to identify the right areas to focus on in a company's value chain.
25. Personal Organizational Strategic
1. Not Motivation but
Discipline to focus
2. Highest Value
Activities
3. Take the right
breaks
4. Focus on minutes
(1440)
5. Work theme for a
day
6. Block time
7. Focus is a muscle /
train focus
8. Eliminate
distraction
9. What would Elon
Musk do?
1. Focus in meetings
2. OKR
3. Say no culture
4. Do less
5. The Simplicity ->
Alignment ->
Focus Circle
6. Focus on decisions
not execution
7. Focus on impact
8. Embrace
constraints
9. Important vs.
Urgent
1. PST/Phase
2. ValueMap Areas
(Wardley)
3. H3 Horizon/ Visual
Portfolio
Management
4. Strategy where not
how
5. Innovation Fence
6. Have a why
7. What kind of
company are you?
Focus Levels and Areas
27. 1. Everyone agrees on what is important.
2. Tasks support important goals.
3. Alignment happens, meaning all parts
support the overall goals of the
organization.
4. People self-correct and change direction.
5. Results occur.
How does Focus look like?
28. 1. Not Motivation but Discipline to focus
2. Highest Value Activities
3. Take the right breaks
4. Focus on minutes (1440)
5. Work theme for a day
6. Block Time
7. Focus is a muscle / train focus
8. Eliminate distraction
9. What would Elon Musk do?
Personal Focus
36. 1. Focus in meetings
2. OKR
3. Say no culture
4. Do less
5. Simplicity over Complexity
6. Focus on decisions not execution
7. Focus on impact
8. The Simplicity -> Alignment -> Focus
Circle
Organizational Focus
37. • The best meetings inspire, align people, and generate
value.
• Don't go to meetings
– you see no sense in
– status meetings
– without an agenda
– which are too long
• Meetings for
– Conflict
– Decision
– Coordination
• 15 minutes meetings
• Ask people to prepare in advance for meetings
Focus in Meetings
38.
39. "That's been one of my
mantras –
focus and simplicity.” -
Steve Jobs
43. “People think focus means saying yes to the
thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what
it means at all. It means saying no to the
hundred other good ideas that there are. You
have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of
the things we haven’t done as the things I have
done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”
– Steve Jobs
44.
45. “I’d rather have a first-
rate execution and
second-rate strategy
any time”
Jamie Dimon,
CEO of JPMorgan Chase
46. “… execution is the key
to a strategy’s success
- is as flawed as it is
popular.”
Professor Roger L. Martin, The
ExecutionTrap, 2009
61. URGENT NOT URGENT
IMPORTANT DO
Do it now.
DECIDE
Schedule a time
to do it
NOT IMPORTANT DELEGATE
Who can do it to
you?
DELETE
Eliminate it.
“What is important is seldom urgent and what is
urgent is seldom important.”
- Dwight Eisenhower
The Eisenhower Box
62. 1. PST/Phase
2. ValueMap (Wardley) Areas
3. H3 Horizon/ Visual Portfolio Management
4. Strategy where not how
5. Have a innovation fence
6. Have a why
7. What kind of company are you?
Strategic Focus
71. Company Functions
UbiquityCommonNovel
Certainty HighLow
Maintain search
rank listing
Audit site usability
Capture product predictions
from information market
Capture customer request for service
Maintain office facilities
Recruit talent
Set budget
Manage payroll
Model:
Simon
Wardley
72. Company Functions
UbiquityCommonNovel
Certainty HighLow
Maintain search
rank listing
Audit site usability
Capture product predictions
from information market
Capture customer request for service
Maintain office facilities
Recruit talent
Set budget
Manage payroll
Model:
Simon
Wardley
HERE!
99. • Focus is the difference between success
and me too
• Focus on different levels is needed
• Personal, Organizational and Strategic
Focus
• Start with Personal focus.
• Focus is a (personal and organizational)
muscle.
Take Aways