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Re:Focus Is Saying No to Good Ideas by sooyoo on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:42AM (#33258196)
Exactly. The author is arguing that certain ideas looked good but at further inspection were actually less good.

Rejecting a genuinely good idea is much harder.

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Re:Focus Is Saying No to Good Ideas by danielmarkbruce on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:48AM (#33258232)
Rejecting these kinds of ideas - business adjacencies - is especially difficult. I've worked at a number of places and every single one did this exact thing - lost focus on sensible sounding adjacencies.
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Re:Focus Is Saying No to Good Ideas by quickthrower2 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @06:33AM (#33260098)
Even Google does this of course :-). They can afford it.
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Re:Focus Is Saying No to Good Ideas by danielmarkbruce on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:33PM (#33266125)
They are the worst offenders. Maybe they can afford it, but I'd argue it costs more than they'd like to admit.
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