Tag: Prioritization
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How To Decide What To Work on as a Founder: What Deserves Your Attention This Week?
It’s something we get asked often as a Business Intelligence company: tell me how to decide what to work on as a founder. As founders, operators, and builders, we live in the tension between aspiration and action. Every notification, request, and “urgent” email clamors for our attention. By mid-week it’s common to feel like you’ve…
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If Everything Is a Priority, Nothing Is: How Founders Lose Focus
When everything is a priority, nothing is. As founders, we’re conditioned to juggle a hundred demands at once. There’s always a list of priorities begging for attention, and the instinctive response most of us develop (unconsciously) is to try to address them all. It feels responsible. It feels productive. It can even feel heroic. But…
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A Hard Balance: Urgent vs Important In Small Business
It can be hard for founders and owners to draw a line when it comes to urgent vs important in small business. In the daily flux of running a small business, it’s common to feel like everything urgently demands your attention. When the phones are ringing, inboxes are filling, clients are pushing, and metrics keep…
