Career · FORTUNE
Fortune #10
Good fortune
An urgent message is not automatically the most important work. Compare its effect on others before reshuffling your day.
QUOTE CARD
A quote for you
“สิ่งที่มีคุณค่าอย่างแท้จริงไม่ได้เกิดขึ้นจากความทะเยอทะยานหรือจากเพียงแค่ความรู้สึกถึงหน้าที่ แต่เกิดจากความรักและความทุ่มเทต่อเพื่อนมนุษย์และต่อสิ่งที่เป็นรูปธรรมต่างหาก”
— อัลเบิร์ต ไอน์สไตน์
นักฟิสิกส์ทฤษฎี ผู้พัฒนาทฤษฎีสัมพัทธภาพและได้รับรางวัลโนเบล
- Person
- Albert Einstein
- Source work
- Letter (30 July 1947), p. 46
- Source text
- Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
STORY & REFLECTION
The loudest task and the most consequential one
Guidance-based illustration · The loudest task and the most consequential one
Illustrative scene: A worker is checking documents needed by a field team tomorrow. Repeated messages ask for an image change on a presentation due next week.
They reply with a time for the slide change and finish the field documents first. The loud request is acknowledged without displacing the work others need in the morning.
Atlassian's prioritization play asks teams to agree on order and name work that can wait or stop. A new request should be considered alongside existing commitments.
Prioritizing is not ignoring the requester. It is making the order and reason visible.
Reflection
Urgent work is not always important work.
A small action today
Rank tasks by their effect on others.
A question to reflect on
Which task would affect others most if delayed today?