I had hoped to be at the Exceed Expectations 2013 conference in Berlin earlier this week, but due to work commitments have sadly had to make do with catching up on the presentations vicariously through a colleague and via the blog buzz around the conference:
In this context, I stumbled across the "bare-bones" of Alexander Graf's presentation on his highly readable blog, kassenzone.de. The presentation itself is interesting - an appeal for us to try to see the business model opportunities left and right around us and the danger of focusing on one thing - but I like the embedded YouTube video even more. Try it out here (I won't comment on it, because that ruins the impact, but go ahead and try it before you read on!).
It has become a cliche that focus on one thing and doing it well is everything and yet at the same time we observe the necessity to be constantly aware of what is going on all around us.
How to handle this?
....I don't honestly know, so suggestions are most welcome ;-).
....My amateur answer for myself thus far, however, is to try to compartmentalise my time, to focus during the week on the job in hand (whatever it might be) and then to very deliberately block time in my month (typically one Sunday afternoon, as this blog entry attests ;-)) to try to look around and reflect on what else is going on. I am finding that this time is enough to get a few impulses and the thoughts/ideas then gestate in the background during the rest of the month, without me really thinking about them.
How many things can you focus on?
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