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Why priorities fail
The common failure patterns: lists nobody can defend, criteria agreed after the argument, and changes that arrive without a reason attached.
Managing Priorities.
How to create better plans and make smarter decisions. The book describes how organizations make and sustain priority decisions, and introduces the five-phase DEGAP® method. A companion workbook by Harry Max and Wes Bright is in progress.
01What it covers
Prioritization as a practice, not a ranking exercise.
The book works through where priority decisions come from, why they come apart, and what makes them hold.
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The five phases
Decide, Engage, Gather, Arrange, Prioritize — what each phase settles, and what goes wrong when one is skipped.
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Working with other people
How to run the conversation when the people who decide are not the people who carry the decision out.
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Keeping decisions alive
Re-deciding on purpose: what to record so a change can be explained rather than re-argued.
Peak Priorities