From the course: Prioritizing Tasks for Maximum Impact

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Five problematic prioritization styles

Five problematic prioritization styles

From the course: Prioritizing Tasks for Maximum Impact

Five problematic prioritization styles

- There are five main kind of priority personality archetypes that I see. The first type of person picks things based upon what they feel like working on. So you know that there's this really important thing that you need to do, but people who have this personality tend to pick things based on what's fun or easy or quick because they like that shot of dopamine they get when they check something off a list, and it gives them this real sense of accomplishment, right? So they're busy, busy bees. These people just check stuff off 'cause they love that. But they are purposefully leaving the thing that is the most important, and they leave the office each day going, I did it again. I still didn't get to that really important project. And, of course, they could, but it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The next type of person does things based on how they appear. So in accounting, we call this FIFO, first in, first out. So this…

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