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Urgency Ranking Tool

A worksheet to help you prioritize tasks by their urgency over time

Urgency is often misunderstood. We tend to think of it in a flat, one-dimensional way. In reality, urgency has different growth modes that impact how we should prioritize our work.

This tool helps you move beyond a simple to-do list and instead think about the true nature of urgency. It helps you to understand that the impact of not doing something immediately can change over time.

By using this tool, you will learn to spot which tasks have a 'Flat' urgency (urgency that never changes), which have 'Linear' or 'Exponential' growth, and which have a 'Decaying' urgency (like a first-mover advantage). This allows you to make more informed decisions about what to prioritize, blending both the importance and the evolving urgency of each task.

The tool includes...

  • A two-stage process for ranking tasks by urgency
  • An introduction to the different 'growth modes' of urgency
  • A method for re-ranking tasks over time to see how their relative urgency changes

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