Priorities, Organization, and Complex Projects

Sometimes work challenges can be as simple as identifying what has the highest priority, who should be doing what, and in what order should certain matters be handled.

Nothing teaches prioritization and organizational skills like the task of organizing years of facts and analogizing those facts with the existing law in a legal "brief" (which "briefs" usually run into the dozens of pages).

These organizational skills are simple.

Simple, of course, is not the same concept as easy. Scuba diving safely almost always means implementing a relatively simple protocol. This can keep divers safe even in some of the most demanding environments, like penetration diving of a wreck that lies 100 feet below the surface. That does not mean it is easy to do under all that pressure (pun intended).

A lot of work problems are like that too. In diving, we try to always have a buddy - they can often have the additional resources we need or the lack of stress to see a simple solution to something that might have us befuddled. I can be your work dive buddy - we can figure out the protocol and I can help you implement it because I am not under the stress you are under.

Be better.

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