Do the right things first. Twice a month I send one prioritization practice you can use that week, plus the Health-Powered Productivity podcast, the reading, and what I'm learning on the road.
Episode 129: Are you optimizing or prioritizing?
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Here's a question worth considering: when was the last time you optimized something you should have just cut? Optimization is saving ten minutes in a meeting. Prioritization is asking whether the meeting needed to happen at all. In this episode, I walk through six places, work and personal, where the situation was optimizing something that should have been prioritized instead. Why it matters:
What you'll learn:
P.S. If you want to go deeper with your team, it's also in the pocket guide, The Right Things First: 74 small pages, about a 65-minute listen, because I left out the fluff and got straight to the point. |
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Do the right things first. Twice a month I send one prioritization practice you can use that week, plus the Health-Powered Productivity podcast, the reading, and what I'm learning on the road.
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