Fixable Everything Can't Be Priority One | from At Work with The Ready
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Aug 25, 2025 Prioritization chaos often leads to organizational overload. The hosts uncover the psychological struggles of deprioritizing projects and how identity impacts decision-making. They discuss the sunk cost fallacy and the emotional challenges of shifting focus. There's a push for clarity in evaluating project impact over aesthetics. Leaders are urged to see prioritization as a dynamic discussion, emphasizing the need for adaptability and strategic steering to navigate ever-shifting workplace demands.
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The More-Is-More Trap
- Prioritization often degenerates into adding urgent items, spreading resources thin and lowering ROI.
- That creates a vicious cycle of doing more and getting less, needing deliberate focus to break it.
Pick The Prioritization Job
- Define which job of prioritization you need: efficiency, leverage, alignment, or resourcing.
- Tailor your prioritization method to that job instead of treating all prioritization as the same.
Why Stopping Feels Impossible
- Teams resist stopping work because identity and job security tie to ongoing projects.
- Stopping a project feels like a small death, especially where role fluidity is low.