Focus and Brand

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Trump is particularly direct about focus. He argues that the single most important discipline available to any entrepreneur is the ability to direct sustained attention toward the most important activities and to resist, persistently, the enormous volume of distractions that fill a typical business day. Most people, Trump argues, are busy but not focused. They respond to whatever is most urgent rather than investing their prime time in what is most important. Urgent things can wait. Important things cannot, because their value is created over time through sustained attention. The activities that build the business over five years are almost never the ones demanding your attention today. Kiyosaki's contribution on brand is built on a consistent argument he has made throughout his career: your brand is what you are known for before you are in the room. It is the accumulated signal of your character, your consistency, and your quality over time. A strong personal brand opens doors that no individual credential or network could unlock individually. Both authors agree that brand is destroyed faster than it is built: it takes years of consistent behaviour to build a strong brand and a single visible inconsistency or dishonesty to damage it severely. The practical implication is the same as every other dimension of the Midas model: consistency over time, in small things and large, is what produces the asset.