# Not All Fires Need to Be Put Out: Protocols to Use Strategic Prioritization to Make Your Day More Productive

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Published: 2026-05-20T07:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Strategic prioritization, what strategic prioritization is, why fighting every fire tanks your productivity, what the research says about the firefighting trap, and 3 protocols to help you decide which fires to fight and which ones to let burn. STUDY CITATIONS Repenning, N.P. & Sterman, J.D. (2001). Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened: Creating and sustaining process improvement. California Management Review, 43 (4), 64–88. Make sure you hit "FOLLOW" in y...

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