Stop Arguing with Urgency. It Won.
Most advice about urgency assumes some of it is false. What if it is not? Drawing on more than two decades inside high-growth technology companies and the rooms where their leaders actually work, Karen Walker shows why the old prioritization tools stopped working, and what still does: how leaders and teams decide clearly when everything on the list is real.
Karen speaks and leads working sessions for executive teams, leadership programs, and conferences. Her writing appears in Harvard Business Review and is featured in HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance.
I have proposed Stop Arguing with Urgency. It Won. for SXSW Austin. The talk argues that prioritization tools stopped working because urgency stopped being information, and shows what sorts instead when every claim on your time is legitimate.
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