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Preview: ... heir individual priorities. The second comes from not understanding the language of priorities. Two terms must be used when discussing priorities, importance and urgency. Omit clarifying either, and confusion prevails. Communicating priorities, effectively, demands attention to both importance and urgency. Everything is not equal in its importance or its urgency. That is why different things have different priorities. The challenge is deciding on the relative priorities of everything competing for time and other scarce resources. The wrong question to ask for each competing item is: “Is it important or urgent?” It is never importance versus urgency. It takes two questions. The correct questions to ask for each item are these: First -- “How important is it - compared to the other things competing with it for scarce resources?” Second –- “How urgent is it - compared to the other things competing with it for scarce time?” Remember, clearly defined priorities are always assessed on both dimensions, and the issue to consider is the relative importance and relative urgency of each item competing for time, money and other resources. The priority challenge is balancing, some time juggling, commitments among numerous items having various levels of importance and urgency - what some call multi-tasking or priority management. All face-to-face and written communications about priorities have to include references to both the relative importance and the relative urgency of all items competing for resource commitments. Remember, unclear priorities is the symptom; the problem is the failure to clarify and communicate the relative importance and relative urgency. Excessive Paperwork and E-Document Generically, it is still called Paperwork. But e-documents have joined hard-copy paperwork to add a digital dimension. The first symptom is “documentation overkill.” The second is poorly written documents. The third is excessive circulation. The fourth is unread documents. And, the fifth is lack of filing or dis-organized filing. Taken together, the five add up to even more symptoms -- piles of paper on desks, credenzas and floors; lost files; overloaded e-mail inboxes; unanswered messages; poorly informed employees and hours of wasted energy, time and money. The challenge is to continue creating, transmitting and saving necessary documents, while discontinuing and throwing out the unnecessary. You can easily determine if help is needed to organize paperwork and e-documents; just look ...
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