[probably_wrong]

"Here, you have a gun to your head, you have to finish in 24 hours. What do you do?"

"I set aside the slides for the pointless CEO presentation tomorrow and work exclusively on this."

"No, you can't cancel on the CEO. Let's say you have two guns to your head and 24 hours, what do you do?"

"I take lots of coffee, skip sleeping tonight, cancel the group status meeting for Wednesday and focus on these two things."

"If you do that we'll look bad in front of the whole group. Let's say you have three guns to your head..."