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Focuswise CEO, Curt Steinhorst, helps leaders harness the power of human attention. Curt works with innovative leaders around the globe, using the Focuswise approach to teach, train, and provide tools that enable individuals and organizations to eliminate costly distractions and create cultures of focus — achieving greater productivity, engagement, innovation, and joy.

Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst Curt Steinhorst

    • Business
    • 5.0 • 9 Ratings

Focuswise CEO, Curt Steinhorst, helps leaders harness the power of human attention. Curt works with innovative leaders around the globe, using the Focuswise approach to teach, train, and provide tools that enable individuals and organizations to eliminate costly distractions and create cultures of focus — achieving greater productivity, engagement, innovation, and joy.

    Work life balance is the wrong goal

    Work life balance is the wrong goal

    Welcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst. This week we're discussing why work-life balance is an unattainable goal — and what to strive for instead.

    • 7 min
    Burnout in the corner office

    Burnout in the corner office

    Welcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst. This week Curt discusses the most damaging (yet overlooked) form of burnout: the one occurring at the top. 

    • 5 min
    The Senate passed a bill... but does it really matter?

    The Senate passed a bill... but does it really matter?

    Welcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst. This week Curt shares a personal experience from his recent family vacation to Disney World that left him contemplating the incessant stream of global concerns that infiltrate our daily lives, and the toll they take on our ability to be fully present in the here and now.

    • 5 min
    The curse of shiny objects: How to manage an obsession with novelty

    The curse of shiny objects: How to manage an obsession with novelty

    Welcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst. This week Curt discusses one of the most common distractions that leaders face: An obsession with new and novel ideas.

    • 4 min
    Meeting myths: Dispelling the notion that being in the room equals being in the know

    Meeting myths: Dispelling the notion that being in the room equals being in the know

    Welcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst. This week Curt discusses one of the most pervasive meeting misconceptions plaguing corporate America: that being in the room equals being in the know.

    • 4 min
    Shake up your career: Strategies to overcome stagnation and boredom

    Shake up your career: Strategies to overcome stagnation and boredom

    Welcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst. This week, Curt discusses why feeling stagnant or bored at work is often the result of being too good at your job, and he shares two ways that successful leaders can rise above the static and create opportunities where they're challenged.

    • 5 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
9 Ratings

9 Ratings

Rambunctious93 ,

Thought provoking!

My organization has had Curt speak with our leaders and he is incredibly inspiring and thought provoking! His podcast is equally thought provoking and in the perfect amount of time. I am more action oriented as a result. Thanks, Curt!

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