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Focus Like a Laser Beam: 10 Ways to Do What Matters Most.


Focus Like a Laser Beam: 10 Ways to Do What Matters Most, by Lisa Haneberg. Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 153 pages. $24.95.

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 of author Haneberg's key points here. What they are, are kernels of advice wrapped around her central theme of how successful executives should learn how to distinguish "must do" from "should do," and focus on the tasks that "most directly affect their bottom-line results."

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As might be expected in this type of book, Haneberg--an author, corporate trainer A corporate trainer is a specialized skill development position in a corporation where the goal is to help improve the "soft skills" or "people skills" of the workers in the corporation.  and operator of a successful blog on management--provides self-diagnostics, exercises and detailed plans for streamlining processes and generating improvements. Each chapter opens with a "nutshell" description of the issue and has "key points" displayed in gray shading See Phong shading, Gouraud shading, flat shading and programmable shading. .

Haneberg serves up some attention-grabbing terms like "saves" (feedback that helps prevent problems) and "chunking" (carving out carving out Managed care adjective Referring to the practice of allowing healthy persons in small employer groups to buy lower cost health insurance policies, while workers who are sicker must buy more expensive high-risk pool coverage  blocks of time in which you focus on just one thing), and most of the book, while conversational, does seem to spotlight the latest buzzwords Below is a list of common buzzwords which form part of the business jargon of Corporate work environments. General Conversation
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 on office behavior. Still, busy executives who find themselves harried by their own office procedures might do well do look at this slim and highly readable volume for inspiration about how to boost their own focus.
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Author:Marshall, Jeffrey
Publication:Financial Executive
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Date:Sep 1, 2006
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