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...

A client of mine broke her foot. Boot, crutches, six weeks, couldn't drive. Suddenly she had more room for her priorities than she'd had in years. She still couldn't get to them. She needed rides and help, and she waited on whoever had room in their week to give it. Someone else was running her schedule. That's an agency problem. Most prioritization advice treats every stall the same way, try harder, and that only fixes one of three. Why it matters: A priority doesn't rise unless something...

The Sphere, a finished school in Ghana, and one last call for Action Club. We had an epic trip two weeks ago: Vegas with my mom, my brother, and my husband, and the whole point was the Backstreet Boys' 46th sold-out show at The Sphere. Bonus cool: It was a white-out and everyone attending wore white in honor of the 25th anniversary of their Millennium album. I'm not even going to try to describe what The Sphere actually feels like, because there's genuinely nothing to compare it to. I've been...