435: You Get One Priority with Sarah Olivieri
About this episode
In this episode, Sarah Olivieri discusses the importance of prioritizing effectively in organizations to avoid the pitfalls of split focus.
Episode Description Imagine a burning building with three people trapped in three rooms. You run to the first and free them halfway, then the second, then the third, then back to the first. You spend all your time running and never fully free anyone. That image is what split focus actually costs an organization, and once you see it, you can't unsee it. In this solo episode, Sarah walks through how to prioritize when everything feels urgent, drawing on her years as an executive director and her work coaching organizations through it. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why context switching keeps you running from fire to fire without ever fully solving one The shortcut to prioritizing: you don't need to understand every problem before you pick the one to solve first Why team and money are the two problems that jump the line, and how to decide which comes first when you have both Where programs, technology, space, and vision fit in the order of operations, and why visioning rarely comes first The fire bucket, and the leadership habit of asking "is there a fire?" instead of "oh no, a fire" Who This Episode Is For Executive directors who inherited a hard situation and feel pulled in five…
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