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The future of your business depends on just two abilities.  Firstly, being able to come up with excellent ideas to expand your business. Secondly to be good at implementing those ideas. There are thousands of books and articles about the implementation part, but comparatively little about quality business idea generation.

The new science of positive psychology has made enormous progress in the last few years identifying what makes people happy at work. In today’s column I’d like to look at one of the most powerful discoveries in this field to improve how good you feel when you’re at the office.

In the current economy, almost every company is facing intense pressure to lower their prices. When times are tough, everyone wants a deal.  As a result, most corporate leaders are just hoping to maintain their prices, and are certainly not considering lifting them- but in my opinion that’s exactly what they should be looking to do. 

As I coach entrepreneurs from all over the world, I see the same mistake made again and again.  In fact, I’d go so far as to say that this single error is responsible for more business failures than any other.  But fix it, and a high growth business is virtually assured, no matter what industry sector your company is in.  What is the number one mistake made by entrepreneurs?

Never before have people at work had so many problems concentrating.  Constant email interruptions, ever burgeoning To Do Lists, and the increasingly frantic pace of business have made it well nigh impossible for many to sit and focus for solid blocks of time.  There are two sub sets of Focus – avoiding being interrupted and being able to focus when you have some time available to think.