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When your team can't focus because everything feels equally urgent

Our team has too many projects and everyone's attention is completely scattered and in meetings we all nod about priorities but then we go back to trying to do everything and I don't know how to get us to actually choose what matters most.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is drowning in competing demands and lacks the collective courage to make hard choices about where to direct their shared attention.

Ideas that help explain it
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