At Work with The Ready 27. Everything Can't Be Priority One
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Jun 2, 2025 Organizations often fall into the chaos of priority overload, leading to too many projects and little focus. The speakers highlight the psychological challenges of deprioritizing tasks and why teams cling to low-impact efforts. They discuss aligning team efforts with strategic goals amidst constant information influx. The conversation emphasizes balancing short- and long-term objectives, rethinking growth strategies to enhance user experience, and introducing structured methods like WSJF for effective prioritization.
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The More-is-More Trap
- Organizations often fall into a trap of prioritizing everything, leading to chaos and lack of focus.
- Recency and urgency confuse teams, spreading resources thin and diminishing ROI on priorities.
Stopping Feels Like Death
- People resist stopping projects due to identity tied to their work and fear of losing their role.
- Role fluidity in organizations is crucial to ease stopping priorities without job insecurity.
Fear of Swapping Efforts
- Sunk cost fallacy and fear of swapping a known ineffective effort for an uncertain new one prevent stopping low-impact work.
- Teams cling to familiar efforts even if impact is low, fearing the unknown of new initiatives.