Each of us are faced with multitude of inputs and decisions to make each day. Keeping this in mind, it is important to spend your time, resources, attention and energy wisely. As a leader, your decisions impact not only your own life, but lives of others and as such you should focus on what is important and valuable to all, not simply react to “fires” and loudest folks and spent too much time on urgent matters.
When in doubt, remember…
“A lack of planning on your part doesn’t constitute an emergency on mine.”
Furthermore, here’s a great chart that could be helpful along the way.
Urgent vs. Important
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