Goldman Sachs, which I own, has a corporate culture embracing a single-minded work ethic and almost selfless concentration on teamwork to achieve goals that are worldwide in scope.
The assumption that these single-minded works were inspired by the Bechers' über-singleminded photographs of industrial structures turns out to be wrong.
The AKC describes them as being single minded, tenacious and courageous when at work, while at home they can be exuberant, playful and affectionate.
Debauchery was pursued with a single minded passion, but the lack of any significant trouble is perhaps proof that an egalitarian approach can work perfectly well.
"He worked on a huge range of sports during his time at the BBC, always displaying his trademark tenacious, single minded approach.
By all accounts, O'Shea is tireless and single-minded: he works eighteen hours a day, seven days a week, and he no longer watches TV or reads newspapers.
To that end, the Sunday Express says, he was single-minded, and "worked for it as both a soldier and politician with brilliance and brutality in equal measure".
When these tales work, as they often do, they are like American Zen, about 'sweet single-minded people' who work when they work and eat when they sit down to eat".
Bloodhounds are usually too single-minded for detection work, he said.
In State of Wonder, Dr Swenson's single-minded pursuit of work verges on fanaticism.
Unlike the Jetsons' Rosie, Roomba is single-minded about its work.
