Is Focus the New Competitive Advantage

July 28th, 2010 by Sean Burke

The Business Pundit raised an extremely interesting question in this blog post: “Is Concentration the New Competitive Advantage?

Their premise?

  • Will the successful companies (and employees) of the future be the ones that can do the hard things?
  • The development of sustainable competitive advantage often requires that you be a contrarian. You go where other people aren’t. 
  • You don’t follow the masses. You let other companies move on from fad to fad while you question each “new thing” and focus on boring ideas like execution. 
  • Don’t get distracted. Build a culture of concentration.

BOTTOMLINE: “Concentration, focus, execution, the ability to tune out the fluff – that will be the competitive advantage of the future.”

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