Negotiating Priorities
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Choosing between two deadlines, deciding what can slip, and warning the manager early.
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- I cannot finish both of these by Thursday.
- Which one hurts more if it is late?
- The billing fix, because customers feel it daily.
- And the other one is the quarterly summary?
- Which nobody reads until the following Monday.
- Then billing first, and the summary slips a week.
- Can it slip a week without somebody noticing?
- A few days quietly, but not a whole week.
- Then I aim for Monday and warn them early.
- Warn them today, while the room is calm.
- Will you back me up in the meeting?
- I will, and the billing numbers come with me.
- Those numbers make the case better than I do.
- Exactly, so let the numbers talk and say less.