Balancing a High Priority Project - follow up story
Keeping momentum while handling a high-priority initiative
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This week’s backstory discusses how to handle a high-priority initiative with your workload (paid subscriber article):
What Prompted this Article?
Has a coworker ever canceled a meeting because they just got an urgent project from a big boss? It is so easy to cancel a meeting and let coworkers know you are handling a very important project!
There are consequences to taking the easy out. Everything from damaged relationships to missed deadlines to lost opportunities.
I wrote this article when I *almost* canceled a meeting in response to a new executive request. Instead, I kept the meeting and got inside information for the executive request.
Throwing myself 100% at a new initiative has been very troublesome in my product management experience. I fight with myself to keep progress going on all my projects instead of going deep on something new.
In this article, I discussed these steps to accommodate a new initiative while keeping the momentum on my other initiatives:
