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Getting Things Done: How I Set Priorities

January 11, 2010 | 2 Comments

How do you decide what to do next? Should you write a blog post? Answer emails in your inbox? Make several sales calls? Spend time on Twitter? Or should you call a team meeting to discuss a customer problem?

Successful people are successful in part because they are good at setting priorities. And while there are many different ways to set priorities, I wanted to share how I set my own priorities – and priorities for the team at crowdSPRING.

How do you set YOUR priorities?

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Startup Tip: Pick Three Highest Priorities

December 21, 2009 | 1 Comment

Startups face many challenges, including the need to prioritize what gets done in any given day. If your startup is like crowdSPRING, you’ll nearly always have dozens of things that you can call “high” priority. But having dozens of high priority items means you have no priorities – it’s not possible to do everything at once. To help focus, as I discuss in the video below, we’ve recently started to identify our three highest technical/development priorities for the day.

How do you identify or manage your highest priorities?

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