Avoiding “Everything is High Priority”
When Everything Is a Priority, Nothing Gets Done Read time: 4 minutes I used to think being busy meant being productive. I was wrong. In my years as a CIO, I’d show up to work with a mental checklist of 47 things. By noon, I’d have touched 30 of them. By 5pm, I’d completed maybe three. I’d leave exhausted, wondering where the day went. Then something clicked. I realized my calendar wasn’t working for me. It was working against me. I was constantly reacting instead of directing. Let me break…