Listener questionsS4 E29
PrioritiesCareersComplexity

Why doing everything means you finish nothing

A practical conversation about competing priorities, both-and thinking and preparing for a competency-based interview.

Three ideas worth keeping
01

Complexity can create energy when it is framed as both-and rather than either-or.

02

Accumulated priorities make everything urgent and nothing finishable.

03

Prepare five career stories and practise them aloud before the interview.

Editorial outline

Follow the useful thread.

Opening question

Cathal establishes the tension behind the episode and asks where the accepted workplace answer stops being useful.

Guest idea · 14:12

Complexity can create energy when it is framed as both-and rather than either-or.

Take it offline

Cathal and Annette test the idea against real working life and turn it into a question a listener can use next.

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