[lgkk]

How about focus on the mission of the business?

Does what you’re doing increase revenue, profits, market saturation, improve customer experience, whatever?

If it doesn’t don’t do it.

I don’t think it needs to be that hard.

Fire people who waste time that detracts from this mission.

Imagine you’re in close quarters combat as a soldier and your team lead is goofing off or your manager is focused on looking good. Don’t find yourself in that position. Don’t let your team get to that level of incompetence and failure.

[lazyasciiart]

Seriously? I have at least ten major projects on my wishlist that all meet those criteria and aren’t getting worked on, because time is finite. The question is not how to find something useful to do, it’s how to agree on what the most useful choice is.

[jordanbeiber]

In my experience people usually spend to much time trying to figure out what is most important instead of just doing an important thing.

[twojobsoneboss]

There are many cases (not all justified) where product work is too difficult to directly tie to financial outcomes, or, the lag time is very long

So then you get into all these murky waters of how to decide what to work on and how to go about it