If you've been around long enough, you begin to realize that
success is just as much about what you don't do as what you do.
Any CEO, entrepreneur, or venture capitalist will tell you that
lack of focus is one of their most insidious enemies.  It's
always been true, but the temptation to try to do more or give
in to distraction has never been greater than it is today.
Don't get me wrong. Some people do manage to find ways to
capitalize on their natural tendency to get easily sidetracked.
I should know. I'm one of them. Still, it's a constant battle
that I fight to this day. No kidding.  In my experience, and
I've worked with hundreds of successful executives and business
leaders, there are certain things they simply don't do. I don't
know if they're instinctive or cognitive, but I've noted seven
things they rarely, if ever, do.  1. What everyone else is
doing.  Quite the contrary, they tend to have a natural tendency
to question conventional wisdom and challenge the status quo.
Fads, cultural norms, groupthi