The Right Things First for teams: what actually changes.


When one person reads a book about prioritization, they get better at prioritizing. When a team reads it, they get a shared vocabulary for sharing guardrails.

That's why the pocket guide is small. It's built to be handed out, carried, and pulled out in a meeting when someone needs a word for what's actually going wrong.

Ability. The person you promoted who's drowning. They knew how to prioritize their own work, never a team's, and assuming that skill transfers is how strong technical people get set up to fail.

Capacity. The project that never rises. Every hour already has somewhere to go. The person isn't the problem.

Agency. The manager who knows what's needed and can't authorize it. From two levels up, that looks identical to stuck. Most teams apply one fix to all three: try harder. It works on none of them.

Where this lands well:

  • Leadership offsites and retreats, as the pre-read
  • New manager cohorts
  • Conference attendees, as the thing they actually take home

Packs of ten or more are priced for teams, leadership retreats, and conference use.

P.S. Reply with the number of copies you're interested in for a quote. If it's 100 or more, I'll offer a fifteen-minute call on how to roll it out effectively.

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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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