The need for focus extends beyond the life of the individual into institutions, corporations, and businesses.

We can often conceptualize being focused as staying stagnant. However, when companies focus on unifying goals it leads to progression and innovation.

In a company, a generally good thing to be focused on is the core mission. Your mission should incentivize progress that leads to your employees to simultaneously being highly ideological and highly progressive.

A good example of this is in longstanding companies like Disney or Ford motors. Ford had an audacious goal of replacing the common mode of transportation, horses, with a machine that would be affordable to the average individual. A focus on this mission leads to unconventional success and innovation.

A clear focus on a companies core ideology enables progress by providing a consistent base necessary for a visionary company. By being clear about what is core (and therefore relatively fixed) a company can more easily seek variation and movement in other areas.

If you know that increasing individual accessible transportation is your focus you eliminate research for translucent wheelchairs.

For companies that tie ideas of progress back to their mission achieves longstanding success.