Focus and Attention
Everyone gets exactly 168 hours a week, distributed with perfect fairness, so focus is the only lever anybody actually has. These posts are about what is on the calendar, what is not, and how much of your list you genuinely chose.
12 articles
2024
What is not on your to-do list today? Bryan Yager on how much of it you actually chose to be there.
7 min readInward at the operation or outward at the market? Bryan Yager on the focus most leadership teams get wrong.
4 min read2023
A sunrise, a coffee and a well-timed quote. A former photographer on focus, development, and what you keep.
6 min read604,800 seconds a week, distributed perfectly fairly. Bryan Yager on the only variable that is actually yours.
6 min readSunday supper, Lassie, and a low dread about Monday morning. Bryan Yager on where the Sunday scaries come from, and what shifts them.
7 min readPatience runs shortest exactly when more is needed. Bryan Yager on shifting focus when the news will not stop.
7 min readWasted, spent, invested, or enjoyed. Bryan Yager on the four things you can do with an hour, and which you pick.
6 min readOrganizations promote super-doers, then need something else entirely. Bryan Yager on the transition most people never make.
6 min readBryan has spent more than 45 years developing leaders, in Boise and across the country. If this is the thinking you want in the room, he works with organizations on leadership development, coaching, and team workshops, and the same thinking runs through his book, How to Transition Into Leadership.