That laser focus (and she argues her gender and relationship-building skills) has served Farrington well.
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The company has maintained a laser focus on its brand since day one and Apple-ness is inherent in everything it does.
So CIOs have to bring that laser focus to deciding where I want to innovate, and where I need to spend.
Avoid getting distracted or buried in data by keeping a laser focus on gathering the customer intelligence that will help your business grow.
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"It kind of gives you a laser focus on shooting, because it's really all you can work on for a while, " said Smith.
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Choosing this career path is completely irrational because the odds of succeeding are dismal, but most succeed because of their unwavering belief, laser focus on delivering and persistence.
Marketing needs to lead with an inspired vision, gutsy and decisive leadership, fact-based decision making and a laser focus on how to build trust through buyer enablement marketing.
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.
Sticking to the entertainment category, but scaling down a bit in screen size, let me move on to another brand that, because of the laser focus on its brand idea, remains on the consumer hit list, Mad Men.
Forbes cover girl Kathy Ireland may have earned her celebrity as a glamorous supermodel but her success in business is a tribute the very unglamorous life of busy moms and a laser focus on knowing this customer.
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The moral of this story is leaders need to be honest, have a demonstrated track record of success, be excellent communicators, place an emphasis on serving those they lead, be fluid in approach, have laser focus, and a bias toward action.
Ms. GROSS: I think what the law has helped us to do is to have a more laser focus on making sure that the programs that are in place in schools are really serving the purpose that they need to serve.
While he knows that the recipe for brand success includes having a simple idea and executing it with discipline and laser focus, he and his team also know that another rule for brand success is to look hard, very hard, at what the competition is doing before establishing a differentiating idea on which to stake a claim.
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Even UPS, with its conservative brown uniforms and laser like focus on efficiency of movement, made the list!
The high speed enables the laser to focus in on a specific region to find and acutely map a tumor.
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One actor was so intense in his delivery down to physical movements, laser eye focus and use of the room.
This book has some good advice, but I think the real solution is less about tips and more about having a laser-focus mentality.
She even mends a frayed flag edge, a nice way of showing her laser-like focus.
Laser-like focus is an excellent description of what the company has been able to do.
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Most major TV manufacturers had, for the second year in a row, a laser-sight focus on the technology.
That takes creativity at the very least, not a laser-like focus on testing.
Large companies are not the only ones with a laser-like focus on cash.
You have to have a laser-like focus on making all that happen.
Morningstar brings a laser-like focus to all aspects of design, including its application to brand identity, products, communications, and the architecture and interiors of their workplaces.
And it meant a laser-like focus on enduring national interests whose significance cannot be measured by banner headlines and cable news sound bites interests that will dominate the 21st Century.
Now an analogous message emerges here in politics: a campaign based on self-organizing teams with a laser-like focus on meeting the needs of individual voters is also the future of politics.
Daniel Rader of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the world's top experts on the science of cholesterol, says a laser-like focus on LDL-lowering has been one reason deaths from cardiovascular disease are dropping.
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