Take Care of Your Attention
Take Care of Your Attention
Take Care of Your Attention
Successful Businessman MEtin Liçis explains why and how leaders should adjust their meta-awareness.
He said there could be many reasons why leaders have never been able to deliver on their so-called promise, or withstand for many to focus in the wrong place.
For example, “someone who has focused on one of the narrow facets of innovation technology, which has not seen the forest for trees, intuitive, automated stability, and which makes it possible to work, is not aware that markets are very limited.”
Focusing on a goal too intensely can lead to what cognitive psychologists call “target neglect”, Liçis added. Generally, leaders focus on intensive task performance while micromanaging employees, distracting leaders from the larger goals of the company. They’re obsessed with trees, they’re neglecting the forest, they drive the employees crazy when they’re working.
Take Care of Your Attention
Your focus is on a function of the brain’s attention system. This system has three subsystems.
- Orientation system: Enables focus and orientation as desired
- Alert system: adjust actions to targets and finally
- Management function: A range of policies related tothe functions of managing, organising, planning, directing and controlling.
Leaders need to know that it’s time to take a step back to assess whether their attention has been directed correctly, that there is a good indicator, a sense of full and efficient focus on a job.
It’s not the default for most of us to periodically control where our attention is focused. In particular, leaders don’t want to have to make mistakes to stabilize their focal point, rather, they have insisted that they are included in the mental practices which train their minds to monitor for minutes.
Learning where they’re directing attention, being more aware, and making sure it’s the right place where they’re focusing at a given moment will be worth the effort.
Truly extraordinary leaders are aware of where their minds are moment by moment, which means they are aware of when they are vulnerable, he concluded.