
Why Being Able to Focus is Essential in Life
A primary task of leadership is being able to direct attention of others into a particular set of actions and outcomes. To do so, leaders (be it managers at large organisations, small business owners or parents at home with children to guide), must learn to focus their own attention on specific actions - while being able to filter out any distractions. Latest neuroscience research from Harvard by Daniel Goleman and Antonio Damasio shows that there are three different types of