ABSTRACT
When the group or civilization declines, it is through no mystic limitation of a corporate life, but through the failure of its political or intellectual leaders to meet the challenge of change. Focus allows companies to make dramatic changes in their operations while keeping strategy and culture harnessed in the process. Although any dramatic change carries with it both opportunity for bold progress and the threat of too much change too soon, many situations do demand quick action. The change effort initially focused on the basic unit of organization. Focus makes successful, lasting, and profitable change possible. Lack of focus thwarts permanent change. Unfocused executives may temporarily take advantage of a change over which they exerted little influence but if they do so with superficial approaches they will seldom get their organizations to adapt to change in a lasting way.
