Managing Priorities.
Managing Priorities – how to create better plans and make smarter business decisions with guest Harry Max.
Harry shares his insights and tips on managing priorities and how improving our prioritization skills leads to better planning and smarter decision making.
Harry Max is an executive player-coach, consultant, and hands-on product design and development leader with vision and a solid grasp of operations. He is a managing partner at Peak Priorities, LLC.
Harry works with senior leaders and their teams to help them realize their visions by zeroing in on pragmatic solutions to complex challenges.
Harry’s experience includes having been a founder/CEO, operational leader, and strategy consultant with startups, innovators, and global brands, including Apple, Adobe, PDI/DreamWorks, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Informatica, Microsoft, PayPal, and many more. An early pioneer in e-commerce, Harry was a co-founder of Virtual Vineyards (Wine.com), where his designs powered the interaction model behind the first usable and secure online shopping cart.
Harry is the author of the book “Managing Priorities – How to Create Better Plans and Make Smarter Decisions.”
Harry lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Managing Priorities:
- Why did you write this book (why the focus on managing priorities), and who is it for?
- Why Prioritize? Why is it important, and how can it help a small business owner? How has it helped you as a business owner?
- Why is prioritization so hard for most of us (particularly small business owners)?
- What’s the missing ingredient that keeps people from doing this well?
- Please introduce the process you explain in the book. What are the key steps?
- How do I select a Prioritization Method?
- What are some tips for making prioritization a habit and organizational practice?
- How do I lead my team to improve their prioritization skills?
Where do I start with getting better at managing priorities?
Episode Host: Henry Lopez is a serial entrepreneur, small business coach, and the host of this episode of The How of Business podcast show – dedicated to helping you start, run and grow your small business.
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Books mentioned in this episode:
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- Managing Priorities – How to Create Better Plans and Make Smarter Decisions by Harry Max
- Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
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