But, when you focus on a single vertical, more like a LinkedIn, that focus is very helpful.
As the mind is allowed to focus on a single object, it stills.
If you want to focus on a single Olympic hopeful, Barnett can't help much, since USA Weightlifting's charter precludes his showing favoritism.
Increased volumes and a focus on a single line of products will yield improved utilization levels, which is in turn expected to increase profit margins higher.
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"When a company has competing products that can result in cannibalisation it's often better to focus on a single one, " said Brian Blau from the consultancy Gartner.
But he said: "Tottenham have many good players and for us it is important we produce a good team performance and not to focus on a single player".
Most of the chapters focus on a single infection, and he ranges with ease over decades and continents, drawing upon years of interviews and field trips with scientists.
Also, many analysts favor pure-play stocks that focus on a single sector or product area, arguing that conglomerates impede the ability of investors to target their market bets precisely.
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Menzies previously restructured its struggling UK cargo business by getting out of operations at Glasgow, Birmingham, East Midlands and Manchester airports, to focus on a single facility at London's Heathrow.
Lee Jasper, the head of Operation Trident's predominantly black advisory group and close to London's mayor, maintains that the unit's focus on a single ethnic group is key to its success.
Concentration is improved when people's senses are aroused, says Dr Linnell, but if this becomes excessive it seems to have the opposite effect and reduces the ability to focus on a single task.
In order to gain a better grip on the app's appearance in the land of mobile desserts, it teamed up with Samsung to focus on a single screen, and a single screen resolution.
This line of thinking ignores the principle of indirectness (or obliquity), which shows that in a complex interactive environment, a direct focus on a single goal can elicit reactions which tend to prevent the achievement of that goal.
However, the monks - who carried out "one-point" meditation, where they focus attention on a single object or thought - were able to focus on one image.
Rather than carom from character to character, as the series once did, the new episodes focus primarily on a single character, beginning with the ostensibly normal son, and the series' center of gravity, Michael Bluth (played with po-faced conviction by Jason Bateman).
"Whatever your conclusions in this critically important matter, your ultimate decision must focus foremost on a single question: "What do our armed forces gain - or what do they lose - from repeal of a law crafted to ensure their effectiveness in accomplishing the sole reason for which they exist?
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Amazon is violating the classic Harvard Business Review rule that smart companies are supposed to have a single-minded focus on a narrow marketplace.
But a single-minded focus on repeal could backfire as a Republican governing strategy.
The bottom line is that Japan has a long history of whiskey production, with a focus on higher end single malts, often aged 12 or more years.
Businesses often focus on creating a solid stand or a single voice.
The 1, 500 vendors of security products and thousands of security service providers have had a single minded focus on defending against bad actors ever since the invention of networked computers.
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Additionally, a single-minded focus on deficits and debt makes tax increases more likely.
And what they want to know is, is that Congress and the White House has a single-minded focus on making sure that people can be put back to work.
In addition, the newly adopted Touch AE (Auto Exposure) function allows the user to set focus and exposure with a single touch on the subject displayed on the monitor.
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The more winemakers in a single region try to focus on what makes them different from each other, the less fun winemaking is for them and, ultimately, the wine drinker.
Widely reviled by techies and elitists as being too simplistic, AOL nevertheless succeeded by keeping a laser focus on average consumers, almost single-handedly popularizing e-mail outside the workplace and bringing the Internet into the home.
With both the learning curve and team-bonding risks out of the way, such a team can focus single-mindedly on the task at hand.
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But if you want to keep up with changing times, ditch these efforts, and focus on PR that gives you a high return on investment every single time.
Mr Gates's single-minded focus on winning everything, whether a chess game or a vital business deal, was complemented by his partner's ability to see the bigger picture an ability reinforced by Mr Allen's eclectic set of outside interests, ranging from music to sport and science fiction.
Domestically, he can reassure voters that Europe is moving Britain's way on economic and social policy, and argue that Britain is an equal power to France and Germany (something his focus groups tell him is vital for winning a referendum on joining the single European currency).
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