One of the things that focusing is about is giving up pursuing good things.
Which means that if I want to focus, I need to decide which good things I'm going to say "no" to.
This may seem obvious, but after seeing many not-otherwise-stupid management structures create lists of "priorities" that encompass everything good (and consequently aren't priorities at all), I'm inclined to say that it isn't as obvious as it may seem.
Interesting take.
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Or optimisation is going on at a different point in the company.
Or it is as obvious as it seems and sanity isn't a property of management structures.
Come to think of it it's not necessarily even a property of any individual who participated in the creation of that structure. An idiot who's read The Effective Executive and How to Win Friends and Influence people should be a darned effective manager - but they're not necessarily very intelligent. Similarly you can gradually converge on sane solutions without thinking anything through ve...
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