You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.
Somebody once told me, ‘Manage the top line, and the bottom line will follow.’ What's the top line? It's things like, why are we doing this in the first place? What's our strategy? What are customers saying? How responsive are we? Do we have the best products and the best people? Those are the kind of questions you have to focus on.
Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.
What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. I was a very public failure.
Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.
