Truth, Lies & Work

# prioritization

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13:59The urgency trapAl Elliott: Do you think, Dr. Rachel, that some people who respond to everything that's urgent are kind of It's almost like they're taking on someone else's priority. Like I heard, I heard an example of someone saying thEP 327 · 13 Aug 2026·interview· 13:59–19:1910:39Tip 2: Prioritise immediate actionsAl Elliott: Yeah. So I think the first thing we, we maybe subconsciously did, I don't think we consciously did this, was allowing us to acknowledge this shock. So it happened like 9 o'clock. We were literally walking intEP 201 · 2 Jun 2025·other· 10:39–13:3220:58Real-world example: prioritising with bucketsLaura Barnard: Yeah, so, one of the organizations that we worked with was a smaller services-based organization. And they were really struggling with this problem. And it was, we were trying to get them to prioritize theEP 145 · 14 Nov 2024·interview· 20:58–26:0426:04Does prioritisation have to come from the top?midroll (Phil Agnew, Nudge): Okay, on to the question that is on every leader or owner's lips: why do my brilliant plans never work out the way I imagine? Al Elliott: Yeah, as I said at the top, it's a question I ask mysEP 145 · 14 Nov 2024·interview· 26:04–26:5328:48The operational first step: streamlining and prioritisingLeanne Elliott: Banks agrees with this and also mentions that it all comes down to prioritizing. Al Elliott: One, in my experience, is that the teams that are best able to move to a 4-day work week are ones that are gettEP 36 · 25 Apr 2023·other· 28:48–34:09

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