The wrong kind of growth, pursued too single-mindedly, fails to help the poor and destroys the environment.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus: Quantity and quality | The

The first is Mr Obama's failure to grapple as fast and as single-mindedly with the economy as he should have done.

ECONOMIST: The American presidency

Their coalition, now single-mindedly concentrating on ousting Mr Habibie, has dramatically shortened the odds that Indonesia will soon have new leaders.

ECONOMIST: Indonesia’s opposition revs up | The

With both the learning curve and team-bonding risks out of the way, such a team can focus single-mindedly on the task at hand.

FORBES: Avoiding Growth That Leaves You Broke (Part 3): Calculating the Odds of Successful Execution

Rather than focus its energies single-mindedly on developing devices that can compete with iPhone, Android devices and the iPad, RIM indulges product design boondoggles.

FORBES: Connect

The risk is that in single-mindedly looking out for inflationary icebergs, a central bank will fail to spot the rocks that lie dead ahead.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

Mr. Li and other Chinese scholars and labor experts say workers from earlier generations, who hailed mainly from poor farms in China's hinterland, were accustomed to hard farm work and more single-mindedly focused on making money.

WSJ: Apple, H-P Investigating Foxconn's Steps to Deal With Suicides

He won the party's nomination for the chancellorship only a few months before last year's general election, much too late to be able to impose his will single-mindedly, either in the selection of policies or of top people.

ECONOMIST: Schr?der��s struggle

If the Chinese can contribute to this effort and drive effective environmental change more quickly and single-mindedly than the U.S, it may be detrimental to the health of our economy, but perhaps not so bad for the health of the planet.

FORBES: Low Carbon Economies And Smart Grids: Watch Out For China