Paying Attention To The Newcomer

In the case of Paypal, the business model drive its mission. But, while fulfilling their mission, they missed something going on inside their company. Although they ensured to pay above-market salaries and offered generous benefits, it was inadequate for some people.

Knowing that their...

Some tend to spend the bulk of a conversation analyzing instead of paying attention to what a person is actually saying. They then walk away from a conversation with a drastically different view of what happened than the person they were talking to.
Pay more attention to the conversation as a ...

Attention is a limited resource. Paying attention to one thing necessarily comes at the expense of another.

We cannot allocate our attention to multiple things at once and expect it to function at the same level as it would were we to focus on just one activity.