When every request becomes urgent, teams stop prioritizing and start reacting. Strong leaders know how to separate real urgency from noise, make tradeoffs clear, and keep people focused on what matters most.
By Wendy C. Wilson Leadership is decision-making. Some decisions are high stakes: approving a billion-dollar contract, hiring the right candidate, deciding whether to greenlight a strategic initiative. Others are smaller but constant: what meetings to attend, which emails to prioritize, how to allocate time and resources. Taken together, leaders make hundreds, sometimes thousands, of decisions…
