What I found is that rather than trying to develop super-human discipline and focus, I needed to rely on a process to make it more likely that I would be focused and productive and less likely that I would be scattered and ineffective.

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To be fair many companies are rigorous with their operational discipline but overlook the human component.

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Instead, such tricks are a product of hard work, an understanding of human nature, and lots of discipline.

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Instead, his success, too, is the product of hard work, an understanding of human nature, and lots and lots of discipline.

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In some ways I can imagine that the experience in business, human interaction, balancing checkbooks, people management discipline that an older generation has accrued might make older entrepreneurs better armed to start a business.

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Horrified, because of its implications for human nature which still make sociobiology a controversial discipline.

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"It might be a little bit difficult to discipline the CEO, " said Fiester, the human resources adviser.

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Workers and managers guide human capital balancing the desires for personal gain against the harsh discipline of budgets.

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Without the discipline of profits and loss, government largesse succumbs to human nature.

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They originally looked for IQ and conscientiousness, the latter a measure of self-discipline known in the psych community as one of the Big Fiv e traits of human personalities.

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