[arthurofbabylon]

In my experience/opinion (disclaimer: small teams only) this single-item paradigm misses a lot of opportunities. I prefer the 60-30-10 approach (see https://minimal.app/603010) as it is more experimental/open while still capturing great focus.

To back that up, I’d like to acknowledge that almost all significant contributions I’ve witnessed weren’t the top priority item (instead, they’re some weird experiment). I am generally suspicious of the human ability to form a hierarchy of needs/opportunities, so I try to favor qualities like experimentalism, curiosity.

Of course, this is all circumstantial. I’m sure some teams have hard deliverables where there is little value in exploring or doing things with no known measurable impact.

[Spooky23]

It depends on how well the organization understands priorities, whether it does so consistently and how it is organized.

Sometimes the business priorities and your chain of command priorities don’t mesh. That’s a good reason to be able to focus on multiple things.