COGNITIVE-LOAD-MANAGEMENT5 MIN READ
Do not let urgency impersonate importance
Choose a response to an urgent request by separating urgency from importance.
A director asks for immediate help on a customer deck while your compliance memo is due in 70 minutes. The request is urgent, but you need to test whether it is important enough to displace an existing commitment.
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