Sublime

“Priority 1 is whoever is yelling the loudest, with the tie-breaker being who can escalate to the most senior executive. Except when they’re more subtle. I’ve seen a bunch of my staff always prioritizing a certain manager’s requests, because he takes them out to lunch once a month.”

What we need to do isn’t merely to prioritize better.

“We always have a PIC for every project. Whenever Jensen talks about any project or any deliverables, he always wants the name. Nobody can hide behind, ‘such and such a team is working on that,’ ” former finance executive Simona Jankowski said.11 “Everything has to have a name attached to it because

Tie recognition to company goals and strategies.

radical, qualitative improvement,

giving his people the power to make project decisions and holding them accountable for these decisions,

Make Internal Processes Explicit

time bound and unambiguous,

Management consultant