My personal experience after having worked in a number of different fields, is that many people who consider themselves to be super-prioritizers are basically borderline a***s who "delegate", "know when to say no", and "follow the pareto principle".
When any one of these is used sparingly and in isolation, it can help and make a positive difference. But when all 3 are present at the same time, it's a huge red flag.
It leads to people who readily dump work on others, while systematically refusing to take off other people's load when possible, and half-ass their job, effectively achieving "efficiency" by not doing stuff, secure in the knowledge that someone else will sacrifice their own efficiency to pick up the slack. And all this while feeling good about themselves on how efficient they're being.
And unfortunately, because of silly metrics that tend to favour such people, this creates a vicious cycle, with dysfunctional teams, and inefficiencies becoming externalised all over the place.
With that out of the way, there's a huge "but".
My personal experience after having worked in a number of different fields, is that many people who consider themselves to be super-prioritizers are basically borderline a***s who "delegate", "know when to say no", and "follow the pareto principle".
When any one of these is used sparingly and in isolation, it can help and make a positive difference. But when all 3 are present at the same time, it's a huge red flag.
It leads to people who readily dump work on others, while systematically refusing to take off other people's load when possible, and half-ass their job, effectively achieving "efficiency" by not doing stuff, secure in the knowledge that someone else will sacrifice their own efficiency to pick up the slack. And all this while feeling good about themselves on how efficient they're being.
And unfortunately, because of silly metrics that tend to favour such people, this creates a vicious cycle, with dysfunctional teams, and inefficiencies becoming externalised all over the place.