Priority Strategy, What Is Next For You?
Do you have a priority strategy? A strategy that helps you decide what to do next? What is most important, urgent, or has the squeakiest wheel?
If you’re on a road trip, and you need a break for rest or for food, you might as well get gas too.
At the grocery store for bread and milk? You might as well buy a snack while you’re at it.
If you’re going to eat the pumpkin or apple pie, you might as well load it up with whipped cream.
It’s commonplace for people to pile on. Pile on whatever is around you, because right now is a time of great convenience or, if you’re falling off a discipline, you might as well splurge.
You also experience it when someone processes LIFO, last in, first out. It’s an act of convenience or proximity.
And finally, it may be the shout of, if you’re in the neighborhood, stop by.
Can you do better than that? What’s your strategy?
Priority Strategy
Prioritization that isn’t strategic may be wasteful.
Doing the next thing that pops up might not be as valuable as item number three in the pile.
Largely, it is often too easy, or too lazy, to not be strategic.
It happens in the digital world. Click the website, click the hyperlink, go deeper, dig more. It’s fast, it’s often friendly, and most of all, it’s convenient.
That’s exactly how people get sucked in. It’s how they get distracted and buried in something that might not have the highest priority or be the most valuable right now.
Prioritization should be strategic.
Always.
-DEG
Dennis E. Gilbert is a business consultant, speaker (CSPTM), and culture expert. He is a five-time author and the founder of Appreciative Strategies, LLC. His business focuses on positive human performance improvement solutions through Appreciative Strategies®. Reach him through his website at Dennis-Gilbert.com or by calling +1 646.546.5553.
