Total Focus: Make Better Decisions Under Pressure

By John David Mann, Brandon Webb,  

Book Overview

What do you do at work when a hundred crises seem to be happening at the same time? Do you pick just one priority or try to put out every fire? How can you stay composed, figure out what really matters, and act decisively? When former U.S. Navy SEAL sniper Brandon Webb transitioned to civilian life, he struggled to get his first startup business off the ground. He raised millions for his new venture, only to lose it all as problems spiraled out of his control. In the wake of that failure, Webb realized that successful entrepreneurs need a skill he had already mastered: total focus. SEAL snipers define it as the ability to filter out noise and chaos so you can make life-or-death decisions under the extreme conditions of combat. If he could maintain total focus while staring through crosshairs at a man who might (or might not) be an Al Qaeda terrorist, surely he could do the same in the business world. So Webb started over, applying total focus to a new startup, a media company c

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735214514
• ISBN13: 9780735214514
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Portfolio
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.2"