At its worst, inside-out thinking distracts companies from their true purpose of driving customer value.
Above all, this distracts attention from the real problems facing Europe, which are national ones.
And it distracts attention from the little Google is doing with its main business to innovate there.
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Any activity that distracts a driver should be illegal, be it texting or an animal on their lap.
Reed, the Charlotte mom, admits her phone use sometimes distracts her from work or even watching a movie.
It distracts the public by focusing attention on threats which in many cases turn out to be non-existent.
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It is alien to his world view and distracts from his domestic agenda.
Focusing on the end result distracts people from doing what it takes on a daily basis to achieve the best bottom line.
Not least, it distracts people from the question of why eight years of economic expansion have largely bypassed these parts of America.
It distracts banks from their true purpose of expanding financial opportunities and reducing risk for an ever wider circle of citizens and enterprises.
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This is more-of-the-same collusion between a federal regulator and private industry that merely distracts attention from the problem no one wants to talk about.
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He believes, in effect, that less is more: Extra information distracts you from focusing on the few simple aspects of a problem that matter most.
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Yet fixating on our desperate desire to protect children from harm distracts from the truly important, adult business of assessing what solutions are actually available.
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And just as paperwork distracts from real policing, targets distort it.
The other reason is that the financial stress of a recession distracts managers from making the investments and process changes they usually make to boost output.
Experts disagree on whether the presence of all this technology actually improves the quality of a student's education, or if it just distracts them from it.
He changes the subject from the one on all of our minds to a false standard that distracts us from the true nature of the problem.
"The disparity in the photos distracts from the intended use of the photos, which is to portray a cohesive unit of individuals, " says Daniel Pries, co-founder of ProPoint.
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Corporate sprawl distracts managers, diverts resources and muddies valuations.
So asking someone who has mastered a discipline to consciously focus on the individual steps actually distracts them from the engine of their mastery, and throws them off their game (pun intended).
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This constant smokescreen of hyperbolic nonsense distracts the public and policymakers from dealing with the real issues that everyone agrees come along with the highly positive aspects of oil and natural gas development.
And much shoveling of advice distracts from that.
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But I worry that over the long haul, it actually makes great institutions captive to the whims of capricious metrics, and distracts these organizations from the more durable and elevated standards to which they should aspire.
It turns out that most infected people do produce these antibodies, but HIV distracts the immune system into crowding them out with all the subsequent iterations they convince the body to make against the mutating virus.
But a week later, when you are back at your job, a special on a dinner in that lodge where you are no longer staying will be nothing but confetti, stuff that distracts you from what you are doing.
Unfortunately, the recent Journal of the American Medical Association publication analyzing life expectancy correlations to one imperfect calculation of relative weight (BMI, the body mass index) distracts readers all-too-eager to cling to its implications that being chubby is actually better.
It distracts people and diminishes productivity.
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"People don't realize a lot of times when they're on their cell phones how loud it is, and it distracts you from what you're doing, " said McEwen, who said she's even seen people trip on a treadmill while trying to send text messages.
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