Board-pack request at 4:18
Handle a late senior request by clarifying decision impact, preserving capacity, and time-boxing the valuable part.
The CFO's late request contains one decision-critical chart and two optional appendix views. Aisha has 72 minutes left in her payroll-risk block. The CFO asks for three backup charts before the board pack locks at 5:30. One chart changes the decision; two are polish. What should Aisha do? Clarify which chart changes the decision, time-box that chart now, and schedule the optional charts for tomorrow This is the strongest move. It separates urgent-and-important work from polish, uses a Pomodoro-sized sprint for the valuable chart, and keeps capacity honest. Accept all three charts and quietly push the payroll anomaly into the…
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