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

• Author: Marshall, Jeffrey
• Position: BookSHELF - Book review - Brief review

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

Don't expect an enumeration 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 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...