December 2025
Your top priority is ...
17/12/25 08:19 Filed in: Management
One of my favourite aphorisms is
If you have two top priorities you don't have a top priority
A situation that arrives all too frequently is that everything is important, resources are limited and changing priorities lead to relative inaction on anything.
This week's Agile Mentors Podcast provided an insight from the Marines (#170: Leadership Lessons from the Marine Corps with Tanner Wortham) about how having a goal and pre-declaring which other goals should be sacrificed (if necessary) provides a way to make progress.