The art of leadership … consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention…. The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Life is denied by lack of attention whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
Do just once what others say you cant do and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
The art of leadership … consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention…. The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.